Analysis of Only Now
Does worry only exist
in our memory
Or is foresight
required to fret
Will a bear live in fear
of the hunter
Or ignore what
might happen unmet
When alarm bells go off
in the moment
Rejecting the
future and past
Is time at its essence
but present
All reference
— a rationalist caste
(The New Room: January, 2024)
Scheme | XAXB XXXB XCXD ECED A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001 010100 111 01011 101101 1010 1011 11001 101111 0010 0100 1001 111110 110 1100 011 011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 317 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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