Analysis of Today
Today was all you
wanted
The past now fraught
with pain
The hurt was set,
you could not forget
What our love
could not rename
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX AA XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111 10 0111 11 0111 11101 1101 1101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 157 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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