Analysis of Today I Had Lunch
Today I had lunch.
I had lunch with a man that can make time stand still.
A very serious man is he,
Sprinkled with humor.
From darkness to light,
Does he bring the wonders of the world into your heart.
Silently this can be done,
And madness would not matter.
He sees everything.
He spoke about people before him; after me, and some on the otherside.
Inviting me to see, all that he has seen.
But I listened, and saw just as much.
You have one moment in time.
The past made his.
The present he takes.
As history he makes.
Today I had lunch.
I had lunch with a man that sees everything.
But I saw him, before he saw me.
| Scheme | A x b c d x x c e d x x x x f f A e b |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111 111101111111 010100111 10110 11011 1110101010111 1001111 0101110 1110 11011001110101101 01011111111 111001111 1111001 0111 01011 110011 01111 1111011110 111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 617 |
| Words | 126 |
| Sentences | 18 |
| Stanzas | 19 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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