Analysis of Original Sin
A battalion of feeling,
a dead soldiers thoughts
A war of contrition,
last battle not fought
Distant artillery,
final shot from within
Its smoke covering over,
—the most original sin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0010110 01101 011010 11011 100100 101101 1110010 0101001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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