Analysis of All We Can Say
If the memories in the present
are of the past
And the aspirations of the present
to the future are cast
Then memories aspire
for only today
The only time extant
—and all we can say
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
| Scheme | AB AB XC AC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101000010 1101 000101010 101011 110001 11001 010110 01111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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