Analysis of Worst Of All
You can’t
Or you won’t,
The result is the same
The difference
Decision,
And it’s yours once again
You can’t or you won’t
Grandest excuse
Of the small
When you won’t
Then you can’t,
And the won’t, worst of all
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | ABX XXX BXC BAC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 111 001101 0100 010 011101 11111 1001 101 111 111 001111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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