Analysis of The Minefield
Public exposure….
part of the game
Open disclosure….
paid for with pain
A window through time
opened once and then closed
Immortality’s portal
—the minefield you chose
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | AX AX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 1101 10010 1111 01011 101011 110 0111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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