Analysis of Only To Remind
You’ve got the how but not the why,
from heaven so ordained
For that one moment under God,
times fugitive proclaimed
You want to know the reasons past,
but not those left to find
A crown of thorns and peasant robe
—serve only to remind
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 110101 11110101 110001 11110101 111111 01110101 110101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 272 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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