Analysis of To My Son, Trystan
You no longer need any help from me,
your path is free and clear
The mantle handed off, baton passed,
my position in the rear
You don’t really need to ask my advice,
but I’m thrilled each time you do
You’ve gone far beyond the trail I marked,
to me—nothing left to prove
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110111 111101 010101011 1010001 1110111101 1111111 111010111 1110111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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