Analysis of Killing The Past
I knew you were coming,
as I walked across the cell
still in chains
I knew you were crying,
as the guard called out three times
announcing your name
Your silence was deafening,
as my final meal
was delivered at last
The time intensifying,
the markings on the wall
—killing the past
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | AXX AXX AXB AXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 1110101 101 111010 1011111 01011 1101100 11101 101011 010100 010101 1001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 327 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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