Analysis of To Pretend
Becoming irrelevant
at last to yourself
The choices have narrowed
the joy seldom felt
The present redundant
what’s left in the end
The fodder of memory
—and you to pretend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2015)
| Scheme | AX XX AB CB C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100100 11101 010110 01101 010010 01001 0101100 01101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 216 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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