Analysis of The Edge Of Tomorrow
A Poet sits on the edge of tomorrow,
waiting for today
Notebook in hand, new words to command
—what time has yet to say
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)
Scheme | XA XA X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) |
Metre | 0101101101 10101 10111101 111111 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 157 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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