Analysis of Two Wings
I’m a two-winged poet
not just single-wing
And would never clip one
to fly into this wind
As one wing goes up
the other comes down
Until both work together
when flying most proud
The zero-sum landing
with talons so tight
Only shortens the glide path
and ruins the flight
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Scheme | XA XX XX XX AB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 11101 011011 110111 11111 01011 0111010 11011 010110 11011 1010011 01001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 311 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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