Analysis of Never Fade



Time ticks steady as I feel it—
the compromise between life and death.
And with raised hands and candles I can wait,
with cracks in my backbone and my breath.
My aging heart, it pounds and grates
though painlessly, it just never ends.
Still, I wait.

— Asher J. Bond


Scheme XABAXXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111 01001101 0111010111 11011011 11011101 110011101 111 1011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 262
Words 50
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 1
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on September 02, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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