Analysis of The Last Swan
The sun in arrears,
its moon in default
With stars in foreclosure,
the cosmos to halt
All time repossessed,
the Creator has gone
Awaiting implosion,
—that last singing swan
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001 11001 110010 01011 1101 001011 010010 11101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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