Analysis of To Rene
I don’t care where I’m going
I know where I am
I’m not worried about the future
I’ve never been to the past
I’m not sad about what’s missing
only joyful for what’s present
I am here and not there
—and my words make it last
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | AX XB AX XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110 11111 111001010 1101101 11101010 10101010 111011 011111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 276 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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