Analysis of A Sweetness
A sweetness comes with age,
like fruit that’s overripe
A Poet then a Sage,
on this journey into night
A wish distilled from all regret,
its seeds to be re-sewn
A sweetness comes with age,
that buried youth could never know
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October,2016)
Scheme | Ax ax xx Ax x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111 111101 010101 1110011 01011101 111111 010111 11011101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 263 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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