Analysis of Those Moments
Is the end something different
than goodbye
Can death extinguish doubt,
beyond all questions why
Is the melody in parts,
forever sung in vain
Are those moments once infusive
—now breezes through the rain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110100 11 110101 011101 1010001 010101 111011 110101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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