Analysis of If Not The Trinity...
Can God do what he cannot do,
can a circle then be squared
Can choices made be taken back,
their history stripping bare
Can memory lapse and then recall
the things it chose to miss
Can time be stopped as life goes on
—there chained to ne’er exist
(The New Room: October, 2021)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 1010111 11011101 1100101 11001011 011111 11111111 111101 011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 272 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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