Analysis of Change In The Wishing
Is thinking sufficient
to turn us around
Cerebral in nature
as problems surround
For thousands of years
our nose to the stone
We’ve battled our nature
and mostly we drone
The answers elude us
the questions forbear
While sins of our fathers
live on in the air
The harder we toil
the greater we fail
All change in the wishing
— our fortunes entail
(Saint Davids Pennsylvania: September, 2024)
| Scheme | XA BA CD BD XB CX XE XE B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110010 11101 100010 11001 11011 101101 1101010 01011 010011 0101 1111010 11001 01011 01011 110010 101001 110010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 402 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 27, 2024
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on September 27, 2024
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