Analysis of Ashes In The Past
Is memory left immortal,
once the body dies
Are feelings cast eternal,
the last crow having cried
Does thought live on inside itself,
all time enslaved at last
One flame to burn the meaning deep
—all ashes in the past
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2017)
| Scheme | AX AX XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001010 10101 1101010 011101 11110101 110111 11110101 110001 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 265 |
| Words | 44 |
| 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) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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