Analysis of The 5th Season
Can memory destroy vision,
if the tables turn
Can time surpass insight,
as its distance churns
Can faith supplant reason,
from its place on high
Can love be the fifth season,
—and our final goodbye
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
| Scheme | AX XX AB AB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11000110 10101 11011 11101 110110 11111 1110110 010101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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