Analysis of One Last Beginning
The spirit travels
where facts can’t go
Past the borders
of what’s to know
Equated speech,
its truth unrhymed
Dogmatic, to amend
in time
But freedom calls,
its voice impends
One last beginning
—that seeks no end
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)
| Scheme | AB XB XC CX XA XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 1111 1010 1011 0101 111 010101 01 1101 111 11010 1111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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