Analysis of Patience is a Virtue
Shaindy Harel 1991 (NY)
Patience is a paradox that travels with a sword
Because time comes at a premium that no one can afford
Every good moment is stolen, and it cannot be long stored
Before words minced up and supercuts and futures that you’re facing
Become swallowed pills of bitter stills and hours set to wasting
To ignore the past or bring it back or leave it better tasting
And that patience, Robin Hood reversed, helps only until needed
Acting every bit the hero for the slightly inconvenient
While it runs its rusty blades to dust in guts of love defeated
Did it win the title, “virtue,” ‘cause it killed all that competed?
I’m no master of its methods, I’m just certain that it cheated
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010110101 011110100111101 1001101100110111 011110100101110 0110111010101110 1010111111111010 0110101011100110 1010010101010010 1111101110111010 1110101011111010 1110111011101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 537 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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