Analysis of Past September
What are words
if not remembered
What are feelings
never spent
What is time
if not then fleeting
What is love
not heaven sent
What are gifts
beneath the wrapping
What are wishes
beyond all hope
What is love
once past September
What is left
—when faith elopes
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Scheme | xx xa xb Ca xb xx Cx xx x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11010 1110 101 111 11110 111 1101 111 01010 1110 0111 111 11010 111 1101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 296 |
Words | 52 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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