Analysis of Bridging The Present
Hope may wane
and wishes fade
but art forever keeps
Dawn till dusk
till dawn again
incessance buried deep
Sculptors sculpt
and painters paint
as writers seize the day
Creation’s bridge
its toll insures
—tomorrow’s yesterday
(The New Room: September, 2023)
| Scheme | XXXXXXXXAXXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 0101 110101 111 1101 1101 101 0101 110101 0101 1101 0110 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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