Analysis of The Price
Is blood,
the price of art
Is death,
the price of truth
A rose,
its thorn uncovered
And love,
—the price of youth
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 0111 11 0111 01 11010 01 0111 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 152 |
Words | 27 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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