Analysis of This Moment At Hand
Living an eternity
with each given day
The calendar a slave
to the present foray
This moment at hand
the only time you’re ordained
Exploding at once
—over and over again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | AB XB XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010100 11101 010001 101010 11011 0101101 01011 1001001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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