Analysis of S
One letter that follows,
if added will deem
To separate the real
from what’s referenced or schemed
“Honor from honors,
Love from loves
“Truth from truth’s,
and Self from selves
“God from gods,
Time from times
“Vision from visions,
and Life from lives”
The singular, the plural
what is, what is not
One small trailing letter
—true meaning leaves off
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 11011 11001 1010011 10110 111 111 0111 111 111 10110 0111 0100010 11111 111010 11011 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 408 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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