Analysis of Maria



Our years are fated….
Maria’s allotment was short
But no less special,
Each minute becoming pregnant
With what time would not allow,
Each new hour
Becoming the measuring stick
Of what would never occur

In a bed and a room
Where only wishes and dreams
Last
To never grow into memories,
Fate would not permit
Her life to become less precious,
As the deceptive future
Steals tomorrow from today

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme XXXXXAXA XXXXXXAX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101110 101011 11110 11001010 1111101 1110 01001001 1111001 001001 1101001 1 110101100 11101 01101110 1001010 101101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 418
Words 73
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 06, 2018

Modified on March 11, 2023

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Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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