Analysis of The Present To Bind
If you always face left,
try once facing right
Stuck deep in the mire,
all truth beyond sight
It’s the questions at hand,
as answers unwind
Past and future a myth,
—the present to bind
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11101 11001 11011 101011 11001 101001 01011 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 39 |
| 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) | 8 |
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