Analysis of Each dance
Your heart says yes, your mind says no,
eternity bi-polar
A time to kill, a time to love,
—each dance best danced alone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 11111111 0100110 01110111 111101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 161 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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