Analysis of Those Fifteen Minutes
The essence of fashion
is ephemera
Emotion and change
dancing cheek to cheek
The top of the mountain,
a revolving door
Those fifteen minutes…
some to lose—some to gain
(The New Room: October, 2020)
| Scheme | AB XX AB XX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110 11 01001 10111 011010 00101 10110 111111 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 193 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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