Analysis of A moment
A second,
or a minute.
A moment,
if you please.
Time,
old friend.
Nothing,
left but a moment.
I've come along,
I followed.
You stole me,
so I lye here alone.
Life,
you shattered.
So why,
did I follow?
Through the way,
I follow.
Yet now,
I can follow no more.
| Scheme | XXAX XXXA XXXX XXXB XBXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (70%) |
| Metre | 010 1010 010 111 1 11 10 11010 1101 110 111 111101 1 110 11 1110 101 110 11 111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 9 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on January 06, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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