Analysis of The Future Spun
I took you into my arms,
to ask about tomorrow
But then you went and stole my heart,
from dreams of yesterday
Reaching deep inside my pain,
you took away the sorrow
All hurt now gone and future spun,
—the present here to stay
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XB XA XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 110101 11110111 11110 1010111 1101010 11110101 010111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 48 |
| 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) | 10 |
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