Analysis of Eight Questions



Will there ever come a time
  when a moment doesn’t matter

Will there ever come a date
  when the days won’t connect

Will there ever come a phrase
   its words devoid of meaning

Will there ever come a song
  whose melody won’t play

Have you let what you celebrate
  turn into celebrity

Have your messages been transformed
  into a billboard or sign

Have you become a lonely caricature
  of a free and lasting symbol

Have your words become mere chatter
   —in a pandering for fame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme XA BX XX XX BX XX AX AX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 1010110 1110101 101101 1110101 1101110 1110101 110011 1111110 1010100 11100101 010111 11010101000 10101010 11101110 0010011 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 508
Words 89
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 45
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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