Analysis of Not Hard Nor Fast
Breaking through the dialectic,
good and evil behind
Beyond to where the sky breaks clean,
and time does not apply
Escaping from the either/or,
my mind now free at last
Lost in the perpetual moment,
—rules not hard nor fast
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010010 101001 01110111 011101 01010101 111111 100010010 11111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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