Analysis of The Moment Demands
In a distended reality
the Buddhists were right,
but pointed they were wrong
A metaphor chosen
to soothe and delight,
but our choices a different song
Transcendent revelation
a spiritual ideal,
as today takes its pound of flesh
The totality of being
the noblest of causes
—when the moment demands no less
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
| Scheme | XAB CAB CXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0001010 01001 110101 010010 11001 1101001001 010010 0100001 10111111 00100110 010110 10100111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 348 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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