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
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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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 13, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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