Analysis of The Past To Forsake
As I lay dying,
let go of my hand
Bid me farewell,
my words to withstand
As a last wish,
your love may I take
Into tomorrow
—the past to forsake
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 11111 111 11101 1011 11111 0101 01101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 179 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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