Analysis of Memory The Master



Truth is a title,
  reason is a slave

Love is a mistress
  forgiveness, bed unmade

The past for excuses
  the future willed in vain

Memory still the master
 —of what goes round again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)


Scheme XX XX XA XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 10101 11010 010101 011010 010101 1001010 111101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 213
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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