Analysis of The Moment At Hand
Living an eternity,
within each given day
The calendar subservient,
to the present foray
The moment at hand,
the only timeframe ordained
Exploding at once,
—over and over again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | AB XB XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010100 011101 01000100 101010 01011 010101 01011 1001001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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