Analysis of Fortune Cast
Writing my own ticket…
a coupon from the past
The numbers all decoded,
my gate approaching fast
Walking down the gangway,
my seat by fortune cast
The pilot sitting next to me
—the flight plan mine at last
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XA BA B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 01101 0101010 110101 10101 111101 01010111 011111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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