Analysis of Lamenting The Past
Time not only seems to be speeding up…
it actually is
Perception trumping reality looking forward,
not looking back
Undercooked moments blow into the future,
their aroma unsettling
As tomorrow disowns today
—lamenting the past
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111101 11001 0101101010 1101 00110101010 10100100 101101 01001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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