Analysis of My Gift
To the ladies,
my youth
To the children,
my love
But to forever,
my words
Hawks that fly
—with the doves
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 11 1010 11 11010 11 111 101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 02, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on June 27, 2019
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