Analysis of A Promise Forgotten
Are you the hero of your own
dime novel
Are you the toy at the bottom
of the cracker jacks box
Are you the name on the wall
of the public bathroom
Are you the saline solution
they use to detox
Are you that groove in the record
that repeats over again
Are you a promise forgotten
carried off by a friend
Are you a serial spectator
whose ticket’s not punched
Are you a banquet disaster
in search of your lunch
Is your mirrored reflection
left empty and cold
Is the one option left you
—forlorn but foretold
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)
Scheme | XX XA XX BA XX BX CX CX BD XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 110 11011010 101011 1101101 10101 11001010 1111 11110001 1011001 11010010 101101 11010100 11011 11010010 01111 1110010 11001 1011011 01101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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