Analysis of Ichiban
That cartridge in a sniper’s gun,
true Poets kill with only one
The shooters bullet marked by him,
one word to kill what lies within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | AA XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11000101 11011101 01010111 11111101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 175 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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