Analysis of Each Moment
Pointing his thumb,
two feet close behind
Direction untethered,
new mountains to climb
Hitching tomorrow,
to yesterdays past
To ride in the present
—each moment to last
(Presbyterian Hospital: October, 2019)
Scheme | XA AX XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 11101 0101 11011 1001 1101 110010 11011 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 201 |
Words | 31 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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