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 |
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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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