Analysis of 'Present Perfect'
Bloom where you’re planted
teach what you know
Love who you married
reap what you sow
Question the answers
mean what you say
Turn up the music
—live for today
(Dreamsleep: September, 2023)
Scheme | XXXX XAXA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 1111 11110 1111 10010 1111 11010 1101 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 194 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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