Analysis of Eternity Waits
Wrestling in heaven,
two Archangels beset
An arm bar on hell,
to the devils regret
Scepters now grapple,
as eternity waits
One rule to pin down,
—a reckoning at stake
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 11001 11111 101001 1110 101001 11111 010011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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