Analysis of The Moment Gone
Secrets keep us sick
as emotions run and hide
Perception dark and thick
the truth turned into lies
Secrets keep us sick
with denial center stage
Time bartered, the moment gone
—nothing left but rage
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)
| Scheme | Ax ax Ab xb x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 1010101 010101 011011 10111 1010101 1100101 10111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 236 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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