Analysis of To Borrow
Answering with phrases loaned…
a paradox recalled
The choices, nouns and pronouns,
all verbs to rise or fall
Old questions freed, all doubt besieged,
defined and then dethroned
The power in each chosen word,
to borrow—not to own
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)
| Scheme | AX XX XA XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001101 01001 0101010 111111 11011101 010101 01001101 11111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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