Analysis of One Time Forever
The night retreats in silence,
as daylight rules the fray
Darkness reigns the past goodbye
this moment not a dream
The present all we’re given
the future lies astray
Repeating truth inside itself
—one time forever means
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XX XA XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101010 11101 101011 110101 0101010 010101 01010101 110101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 265 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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