Analysis of Whose Blood
Is the right proprietary?
Is arrogance ordained?
Who gets to decide?
Who gets the acclaim?
The writer of the lyric?
The critic who disdains?
Who gets to call it Poetry?
Whose blood has left a stain?
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | AX XX XX AX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010100 110001 1111 11001 0101010 010101 11111100 111101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| 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) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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