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 |
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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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