Analysis of Beyond Today
You’ll never get to paradise,
by riding on a mule
You’ll never lose the Jester,
by acting like a fool
You’ll never shed the darkness,
by hiding from the light
You’ll never see beyond today
—entrapped in mirrored sight
(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 110101 1101010 110101 1101010 110101 11010101 010101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 247 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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