Analysis of Memory's Return
Looking out is different
than looking back
Wishes get hardened
with a backward glance
All hopes reversing
with time exposed
The aspirant trail marked
—by memory’s return
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011100 1101 10110 10101 11010 1101 010011 1101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 212 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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