Analysis of Caging The Snake
You first forgive
to then forget
Judgment lost
in past regret
To change the mantra
soul’s unfilled
And cage the snake
—from now until
(Freemont Street Las Vegas: July, 2022)
| Scheme | XAXAXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1101 101 0101 11010 101 0101 1101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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