Analysis of Now Due
Blindly spending the
bulk
Of my temporal
capital
Hourly deficits
started to climb
And piled into
notes
I will never
repay
Stored in vaults
that I’ll never find
Words lay
uncashed
As I waste even
more
In my attempt to go
back and re-sign
All those debts
left untendered
Never forgiven
now due
That fate
has secured
—and defined
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XX AA XX BX XC XD CB XX XX XX XB XXD A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10100 1 11100 100 10100 1011 0101 1 1110 01 101 11101 11 1 11110 1 010111 1011 111 1010 10010 11 11 101 001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 389 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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