Analysis of Death On The Fringes



The older I get,
  the louder the Muse does parade

The shorter the moment,
  the deeper her message invades

The older I get,
  distant voices now filter and fade

With death on the fringes,
  all focus now centered and staged

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)


Scheme Ab xx Ab xx x
Poetic Form
Metre 01011 01001101 010010 01001001 01011 101011001 111010 11011001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 252
Words 44
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 04, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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