Analysis of Beyond My Doubt
In youth,
my writing slaved beneath my leisure
To answer questions
only when the pen aroused
But as grayness enters now
on a near horizon
New feelings past my age emerge,
—beyond my doubt
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 1977)
| Scheme | XA XX XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01 110101110 11010 1010101 111101 101010 11011101 0111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 232 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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