Analysis of Looking Back — Moving On
Are you lost inside nostalgia,
blinded by its call
Self convinced the past is king,
old romance to enthrall
The facts proclaim much different,
in science and the arts
Awareness of what we’ve become,
the most illusive part
What you bought for fifteen dollars,
that CD with thirteen songs
Now can buy the music world,
Ipod’s carry on
The doctor’s diagnosis,
beyond mere life or death
An MRI can then confirm,
and protons will arrest
The scope of human nature,
to hold on and not let go
Ties us to a bill we’ve paid
—resent from long ago
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)
Scheme | XA XA XX XX XX XX XX XX BC XC B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 10111 1010111 10111 01011100 010001 01011101 010101 11110110 1111111 1110101 1101 010010 011111 111101 01101 0111010 1110111 1110111 011101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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