Analysis of A Stitch in Time
A Stitch in Time
My daughter and my spirit are forever entwined
Like the stiches in a zig-zag
One left; one right; succinctly aligned
The fabric of our lives is not perfect each day
But her silk and my denim oft meld together
A tapestry of strands in a corded macramé
There are precious few nots in our knots
As we mostly see eye to aye
Tethered to each other in half-hitch
In a kite string soul-searching the sky
She knows not where we’re flying
But she sure knows the scenes I’ve seen
Our goal to transcend solo flights
And replace them with an interwoven dream
Thus memories and traditions newly-created
As we soar freely with our love as the tether
The only thing certain is the beauty
Of our flight in this rarified air – together.
Scheme | A BXBXCAXDXDXXXXXCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 1100110101001 1010011 111101001 0101101110111 101011011010 01001100101 1110110101 11101111 101110011 001111001 1111010 11110111 10110111 011110101 1100001010010 1111011011010 0101101010 11010111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 746 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 18 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 295 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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