Analysis of Veracious To Lay
You till your own garden,
you sow your own seeds
You harvest the memories,
you feast on the breeze
You water those choices,
both made and unmade
Your truth deeply hoed
—veracious to lay
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)
Scheme | XX AA XB BX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 11111 1100100 11101 110110 11001 11101 111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 224 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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