Analysis of Fame Or Infamy
The best thing of all …
a memory treasured
The worst thing of all …
a memory shamed
Blessing the one
cursing the other
To live on beyond us
— in praise or blame
(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)
| Scheme | AXAXXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111 010010 01111 01001 1001 10010 111011 0111 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 198 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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