Analysis of Running
Running from who you are
—the end closes in
Where robbed of any more new
beginnings
The past and future now get to
choose
As time perpetual blinks,
—one last goodbye
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2015)
| Scheme | XX AX AX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111 01100 1111011 010 01010111 1 1101001 111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 200 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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