Analysis of Old Hunger
Is it the main course of the tale
or the ingredients that count
Is it the entree served first
or the dessert that surmounts
Is it the first that was last
or the last then before
As the order indentured
reverses once more
Was it the things that you said
or the silence you kept
Was it the moments you starved
or those times that you wept
Was it for honor and glory
or a passion unseen
As your meal time resets
—and old hunger now feeds
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Scheme | XX XA XB XB XC XC XX AA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 10010011 110111 100111 1101111 101101 1010010 01011 1101111 101011 1101011 111111 11110010 101001 111101 011011 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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