Analysis of The Fire Now Yours
You hide behind
the angels mask
As truth unsheathes
its sword
Your costume stripped,
the devil unleashed
His fire,
—your fate to endure
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 0101 111 11 1011 01001 110 11101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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