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
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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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 21, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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