Analysis of Eternity's Mark
Can time be discarded
by reading your work
Your wisdom a birthstone,
eternity’s mark
With experience salient,
thoughts never to age
A voice for all seasons
—the words of a sage
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11011 11001 11 10100100 11011 011110 01101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 218 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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