Analysis of Eternity Waiting
In the depths of the forest,
a lone candle burns
That light into forever,
your spirit still yearns
In the trees and the darkness,
its promise burns bright
With eternity waiting,
—and just out of sight
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
Scheme | XA BA XC XC B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0011010 01101 1101010 11011 0010010 11011 1010010 01111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 242 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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