Analysis of No Longer Asking
There’s a clarity that comes with age,
confusion on the run
The light much brighter deep inside,
no writing on the come
My youth endeavors, drifting lines,
those hedges where I’d hide
Have all been trimmed or taken down,
left nothing to deny
There’s a clarity that comes with age,
lens sharpened, filters off
Regrets left bleeding where they fell,
to die amongst the frost
When morning comes my eyes are clear,
the past a long goodbye
My vision focused on my dreams
—no longer asking why
(Bryn Mawr College: April, 2020)
Scheme | Ax bx xb xc Ax xx xc xc x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001111 010101 01110101 110101 11010101 110111 11111101 110101 101001111 110101 01110111 110101 11011111 01011 11010111 110101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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