Analysis of The Fleeting Moment
You can only live
in the time you’re given
The past and the future,
a false consorting
Looking inside and blinding
yourself
—to tomorrow and yesterday
The magic contained within
each fleeting moment
—until it’s gone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XA AX X XX X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 001110 010010 01010 1001010 01 101010 0100101 11010 0111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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