Analysis of The Grip
Holding on to a memory
Holding on to a dream
Holding on ever tighter
Holding on—holding me
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | AXXA A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 10110100 101101 1011010 101101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 129 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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