Analysis of But For One ...
Do you write to a standard
that isn’t your own
Do you pledge your allegiance
to a dilettante throne
Do you shut out your Muse
when her words pierce the skin
Do you think before feeling
looking out never in
Is your nighttime belabored
with dreams from the past
Is the daylight a hunter
your guilt running fast
Is the one choice that’s left you
the one you can’t make
Is the courage required
—your one failing grace
(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)
| Scheme | ABXB XCXC ADED XXAX E |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 1111 1111010 1011 111111 101101 1110110 101100 111010 11101 101010 11101 1011111 01111 1010010 11101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 454 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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