Analysis of The Cosmos Expands
You can forever buy in,
without hanging on
The moment anointed,
to reign till it’s gone
There’s a time to hold tight,
and a time to let go
Veracity final,
in what it now shows
When that comes in question,
the cosmos expands
New truth taking over
—and at our command
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 01101 010010 11111 101111 001111 010010 01111 111010 01001 111010 011001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 298 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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