Analysis of A Vow To Myself
I asked for your blessing,
instead you explained
What I should be paying
to garner acclaim
You told me if only
I’d do it this way
My words could have meaning
and influence—sway
But power and fortune
are not what I sought
If influence only
gets brokered and bought
So the blessing passed over,
no bribery done
A last vow to myself
—from you I must run
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | AX AX BC AC DX BX XD XD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 01101 111110 11001 111110 11111 111110 01001 110010 11111 110010 11001 1010110 11001 01111 11111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 394 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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