Analysis of Dances Freely
All of our passions,
border on sin
The reasoning gray,
—the line often thin
All of our joy,
dances freely between
That Angel above us,
—and a Devil unseen
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 1011 01001 01101 11101 101001 110011 001001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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