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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