Analysis of A Choice
To those who seek acquaintance,
I can’t and won’t befriend
No time that isn’t mortgaged,
no hearts will I defend
Each day begins and ends
with gifted words upon the page
My blood lay rediscovered,
new memories to age
My spirit lost within the Muse,
my shadow running free
Her fond acceptance zero-sum,
her voice my destiny
To those who say they know me,
my verse they must have read
That person lost before the scribe,
much better left for dead
And in the moment present,
where all things take their place
I give myself back to a choice
—no friendship can replace
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XC XC CD XD XE XE C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 110101 111110 111101 110101 11010101 1110010 110011 11010101 11101 01010101 011100 1111111 111111 11010101 110111 0001010 111111 1111101 11011 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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