Analysis of The Old Woman Says...
“You’ve got more past than future,”
she said without a smile
“The hours lost will not rewind,
your pendulum beguiled
“You’ve got more past than future,”
the hag said one last time
“Your legacy a broken spring
—whose clock no longer chimes”
(Valley Forge Memorial Bell Tower: March, 2021)
| Scheme | Ax xx Ax xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110 110101 01011110 110001 1111110 011111 11000101 111101 10101001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 299 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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