Analysis of False Limits
You have to cross the perimeter,
for your border to expand
Stepping over the line,
of yourself to demand
You have to follow that inner voice,
calling out sacred and new
Rejecting false limits,
on your way to the truth
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111100100 1110101 101001 101101 111101101 1011001 010110 111101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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