Analysis of No Turning Back
The earth cracked in Nepal
with fire and shame
And thousands lay dead
on the mountains and plains
Its crust was ripped open
its heart now exposed
And lives were then claimed
from a heaven deposed
The story for mystics
a legend say some
The day nature demanded
for things that we’d done
Her climate infected
her sky ringed in black
Our future as payment
—with no turning back
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Scheme | XX XX AB XB XX CA CD XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011001 11001 01011 101001 111110 11101 01011 101001 010110 01011 0110010 11111 010010 01101 1010110 11101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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