Analysis of The Contradiction Rhymed
Playing cards at
29
I bet the man with
my last dime
He set the clock
he kept the time
The table swung
the voices climbed
All chips transparent
a pot sublime
A last wager made,
—the contradiction rhymed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)
| Scheme | XX XA XA XB XA XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 1 11011 111 1101 1101 0101 0101 11010 0101 01101 00101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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