Analysis of This Present Mine To Own
The day now split
drifts off unpromised,
the dream remains with me
Our words as jewels
now treasured pawn,
their tickets burning free
The nights by measure
mornings fled,
those times you woke and lied
My heart remains
my own to wed,
your wound still deep inside
From spells you cast
upon our gift,
and quarried into stone
The past is black,
the future gone,
—this present mine to own
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
| Scheme | AAB XCB XDE XDE XXF XCF B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 111 010111 101110 1101 110101 01110 101 111101 1101 1111 111101 1111 01101 01011 0111 0101 110111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 434 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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