Analysis of Perdition Assured
You try to mask your given voice
in what’s perverse and then profane
But truth speaks only for itself,
your costume tattered-seamstress blamed
This great parade, a grand charade,
your song a flattened chord
Its final line to seal your fate,
—perdition now assured
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 00010101 11110101 10110101 11010101 110101 11011111 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 304 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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