Analysis of The Cost
The more we are given,
— the more that gets taken away
Like Stephen Hawking looking out
from his empowering inferno
His vision to create and inspire
anew,
Exhausting the very flame,
—that he lives to ignite
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2015)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110 01111001 11010101 110100010 110101001 01 0100101 111101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 250 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 1 |
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) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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