Analysis of This Moment
A tumbleweed Poet,
Mariah’s delight
The wind for a mistress,
the future in flight
A rambling Sage
with a heart full of why
Forgetting the past
—this moment defies
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110 101 011010 01001 0101 101111 01001 11001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 197 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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