Analysis of Forever To Know
Like water,
I went where I wanted to go
Running free,
through eternity’s ebb and its flow
Like the rain,
I fell through the thunder below
Washing clean
—that dear and forever to know
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2017)
| Scheme | AB XB XB XB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 11111011 101 111011 101 11101001 101 11001011 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 38 |
| 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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