Analysis of In This Present Begun
Not grabbing
but reaching
Not pushing
but pulling
Not telling
but listening
Not beginning
or done
Not mad
but then joyful
Not sad
but then hopeful
Not before
or then after
In this present
—begun
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | AA AA AA AB CD CD XX XB D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 110 110 110 110 1100 1010 11 11 1110 11 1110 101 1110 0110 01 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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