Analysis of For Just Once
If your courage lasted for
just an instant
Overriding your fear,
all excuses behind
If one choice you made
could then reimagine
A world once illusioned
—stepping out of your dreams
(The New Room: February, 2021)
| Scheme | XAXXXXAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 1110 10011 101001 11111 111 0111 101111 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 205 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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