Analysis of Hang On
Diverting his eyes from that last final hour,
denying death its due
His conscience and awareness tight in his grip,
ownership unrenewed
Both arms around life, he’s forever rejected,
blinded as time starts to bleed
Meeting the end in a loss of control
—damned by what he won’t concede
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2020)
| Scheme | AB XB XC XC A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111111010 010111 11000101011 101 110111010010 1011111 1001001101 1111101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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