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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