Analysis of What Once Was...
I carry deep inside myself,
a man once big and strong
Who stood alone against the wind,
that blew both right and wrong
I carry in my heart and mind,
those things that age inures
Reminding of what once was mine
—as memory endures
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA BA BC XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011 011101 11010101 111101 11001101 11111 01011111 110001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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