Analysis of Not To Last
I survived the 60’s,
can I ask the same of you…
With soul in tact, my body wracked,
and conscience split in two
My parents now have I become,
these days of future past
With bloodshot eyes and memory owned
—by that decade not to last
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 1110111 11011101 010101 11011101 111101 11101001 1101111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 267 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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