Analysis of The Cost
What have you traded
for what you now call success?
What have you lost
and forgotten to redress?
Will the status you hold
justify the amount that’s been paid?
Do the memories still unfold,
--- does any newness remain?
(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)
Scheme | XA XA BX BX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 1111101 1111 0010101 101011 10001111 10100101 1101001 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 259 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on March 23, 2015
Modified on March 14, 2023
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