Analysis of Forever At Once
Folding the past
inside the present
Rolling the future in layers
of perpetual time
Escaping from one then the other
leaving all three in simulation
A dancer shrouded in mystery
—all things forever at once
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2014)
Scheme | XX XX AX XX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001 01010 10010010 101001 010111010 10110010 010100100 1101011 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 246 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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