Analysis of The Masquerade



The enemy of my enemy,
—often masquerades as my friend


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 010011100 101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 56
Words 10
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 29, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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