Analysis of Fated Current
Are you the latest one I’ve left alone,
heart Shanghaied—no goodbye
Are you wondering why as questions loom,
the answers high and dry
Were you sure you’d be the only one,
to wade misfortune’s tide
As that fated current pulled me back
—to drift again untied
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011101 1111 1110011101 010101 011110101 110101 111010111 110101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 296 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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