Analysis of A Wish Distilled
A sweetness comes with age,
like fruit that’s finally ripe
A Poet then a Sage,
on this journey into night
A wish distilled from all regret,
its seeds to be resown
A sweetness comes with age
—that buried youth will never know
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
| Scheme | Ax ax xb Ab x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111 1111001 010101 1110011 01011101 11111 010111 11011101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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