Analysis of Forever At Once
Folding the past
inside the present
Rolling the future in layers
of perpetual time
Escaping from one then the other
leaving all three in simulation
A dancer shrouded in mystery
—all things forever at once
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2014)
| Scheme | XX XX AX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 01010 10010010 101001 010111010 10110010 010100100 1101011 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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