Analysis of Present To Sharpen
Through the good times and bad,
I held onto my anger
Either happy or sad,
it was never a stranger
Beginning unto end,
it would surface quite often
Past and future beguiled
—the present to sharpen
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2017)
| Scheme | AB AB XC XC B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 1110110 101011 1110010 010101 1110110 101001 010110 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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