Analysis of 1972 'Nittany Mountain' Ladies Choice



Dancing to the music

inside a mountain garage
   —Laura became my partner

Lost within her melody,
  found within her words

—never to be alone again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)


Scheme X XX AX X A
Poetic Form
Metre 101010 0101001 1001110 1010100 10101 10110101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 190
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 1, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 06, 2017

Modified on March 14, 2023

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