Analysis of That Missing Link
A step ahead
A step behind
The motion foreign
The distance blind
To look then forward
While looking back
The moment flounders
The line goes slack
The past—the future
Regret and hope
A sun now darkened
Your shadow gropes
A step ahead
A step behind
That missing link
—still yours to find
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2015)
| Scheme | ABxb xcdc exxd ABxb e |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 0101 01010 0101 11110 1101 01010 0111 01010 0101 01110 111 0101 0101 1101 1111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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