Analysis of Giving It Up
Give it back to the night,
give it back to the day
Give it back to the moment,
where time goes to pray
Give it back to the future,
give it back to the past
Give it up to the present
—forever to last
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XA BA XC BC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 111101 1111010 11111 1111010 111101 1111010 01011 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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