Analysis of To Chime Above
Contradiction…
a mortal trap
Looking forward,
while looking back
Direction frozen,
a timeless clock
To chime above
—life’s paradox
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2019)
Scheme | AX XX AX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010 0101 1010 1101 01010 0101 1101 110 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 169 |
Words | 23 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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