Analysis of Forever At Home
Giving up the money
for a chance at transcendence
The words became sacred,
all time was disowned
Chasing that one thing
that if caught defies memory
At one with the truth
—forever at home
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
| Scheme | AX XX XA XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 1011010 010110 11101 10111 11101100 11101 01011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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