Analysis of Legacy For Sale
Did the choices you made
scatter bodies behind you
Did you block out the light
leaving others in the cold
Did you take your half
out of eternity’s middle
Did the promises you made
—become the legacy you sold
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | AX XB XX AB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 1010011 111101 1010001 11111 11110 1010011 01010011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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