Analysis of A Token For The Master
Boiling away the edges
letting the core expand
Limitations drifting free
clarity at hand
Horizon coming at me
sky and earth as one
Sunsets in my memory
answers on the run
A token for the master
a pittance bye and bye
Value placed in what is not
scientists decry
My width and breadth immortal
the universe set free
To roam forever in my heart
—your eyes too blind to see
(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: May, 2022)
| Scheme | XABA BCBC XDXD XBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010 100101 010101 10011 0101011 10111 101100 10101 0101010 010101 1010111 10001 1101010 01011 11010011 111111 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 418 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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