Analysis of Eternity's Twin
As of late,
I have developed a new best friend
It’s my younger self coming
to visit my end
I look in his face,
and I see a new truth
I look in his face,
and I see more than youth
Now more like my father,
I more like his son
The beginning he carries,
from whose ending I run
He tells me he’s followed,
but I never looked back
Always looking beyond,
what my fear could attack
He approaches me close,
but we’re never to touch
The distance between us,
life’s meaning as such
For most of my days
I planned dying alone
But now in his presence,
every memory reshown
He points to my heart,
as his eyes fly within
His vision, my vision
—eternity’s twin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Scheme | xa xa Bc Bc xd xd xe xe xf xf xx xd xg dg x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 110100111 1110110 11011 11011 011011 11011 011111 111110 11111 0010110 111011 111110 111011 11001 111101 101011 101011 010011 11011 11111 111001 110110 1001001 11111 111101 110110 11 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 691 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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