Analysis of The Bricks You Lay
Is your house built out of certainty,
are the walls made thin or stout
Is your mind filled up with questions,
do you live in fear or doubt
Is your spirit free or servile,
is your will unchained or slave
Is your heart the trowel you build with,
and love,
—the bricks you lay
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA BX XXX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (40%) |
| Metre | 111111100 1011111 11111110 1110111 11101110 111111 111010111 01 0111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 316 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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