Analysis of A Riper Day
Like wine,
Poets age with every year
Tattered labels stained,
vintners unclear
Bordeaux, Merlot, or Cabernet,
words mellow in the dark
Where time ferments a riper day
—its richness to impart
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA BX BX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 10111001 10101 1001 0110101 110001 1101011 110101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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