Analysis of Fond Memory's Child
My body ages…
as words stay young
Mostly written,
but often sung
Fond memory’s child…
youth starts to rage
All gray outside,
blue-blonde the page
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 1111 1010 1101 111 1111 1111 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 181 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 26, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 11, 2019
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