Triptych

[milo]

thanks for the feedback Milo

the piece is non-rhyming, metrical verse which by definition is blank verse. I make it 38+37+24... 99 lines - 990 syllables... assuming the online checker is correct.

changing the tense of the first verse - section - would defeat the object of it being a triptych.

blank verse needs to have a consistent meter, this doesn't so it is merely free verse. You seem to have written it in syllabics which is not metric by any sense of the word and generally accepted as ineffective in English. As for defeating the object of it being a triptych, I don't really see how but if I was you I would do it anyway as now the effect is quite disruptive.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181919