Analysis of The Jilted Muse
A better critic
than writer…
Your tongue sharpens,
as your pen hacks
Bastardized on the altar
of cold description
Disavowed by the jilted Muse,
—ink bleeding red
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Scheme | XA XX AX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010 110 1110 1111 11010 11010 0110101 1101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 202 |
Words | 31 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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