Analysis of Nowhere Left
Age now walks beside me,
a reminder of the past
Not a shadow or a mirror,
but a debt come due at last
Each step it locks in cadence,
my denial zero sum
A reckoning before me
—and nowhere left to run
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June 20, 2019)
| Scheme | AB XB XX AX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 0010101 1011010 1011111 1111010 1010101 0100011 01111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 232 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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