Analysis of Future-Past
Writing not for current ears,
writing for a thousand years
Writing not for time undone,
writing for the zero-sum
Writing not for love or hate,
writing not to legislate
Writing neither first nor last,
writing for the future-past
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)
| Scheme | AA XX BB CC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1011111 101110 1010111 1010101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 259 |
| 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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