Analysis of Fate's Retort
To live within the moment,
and write as love does now befriend
“Light shining brightest as
hours grow short”
A beginning reunites with
the journey’s end
“Memory imploding
on fate’s retort”
A window reopens,
my heart beats faster still
“Epiphany’s march
neither to nor from”
To be saved in a final breath,
one last line to say I will
“The past and future
left exposed—undone”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XB XA XB XC XX XC XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 01111101 110101 1011 0010011 0101 100010 111 010010 111101 11 10111 11100101 1111111 01010 10101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 499 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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