Analysis of A Lifetime Of Searching
Sitting alone
among my books,
growing old within myself
A memory came back
its reflection dim,
as I lifted one down from the shelf
Sitting alone
among my books,
I remembered—then remembered again
More than just words
are on those pages I wrote,
it’s my lifetime of searching—in print
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | ABc xxc ABx xxx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 0111 101011 010011 10101 111011101 1001 0111 1010101001 1111 1111011 11111001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 334 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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