Analysis of To Fly Forever
My body aged—my spirit saged,
all time a fading lie
My wishes getting younger,
a bigger piece of sky
My body died—the world revived,
different than before
My spirit free to roam at last,
and fly forever more
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | AB XB AC AC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 110101 1101010 010111 11010101 100101 11011111 010101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 42 |
| 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) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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