Analysis of Never Yours To Lose
Like eating your own cooking,
do you favor what you write
Do the words digest completely,
—the stove again to light
As you walk that final mile,
in those shabby cobblers shoes
Will you then embrace at last,
—what was never yours to lose
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | XA BA XC XC B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 1110111 10101010 010111 1111101 0110101 1110111 1110111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 280 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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