Analysis of When The Fates Allow



I don’t write Sonnets,
  or Limerick verse

I don’t write Haiku,
  though often terse

I don’t write Ballads,
  or Horacian Odes

I don’t write Parables,
  to self-implode

But I do write in Rhythm,
  and often in Rhyme

With meaning that’s buried,
  and metered in time

All verbal indenture,
  I must disavow

For the meaning to rise,
  —when the fates allow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)


Scheme XA XA XX XX XB XB CD XD C
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 11001 11110 1101 11110 111 111100 1101 1111010 01001 110110 01001 110010 1101 101011 10101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 390
Words 64
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 16, 2016

Modified on March 09, 2023

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