Analysis of On Bended Knee
You can take away health,
you can take away riches,
you can take my ability to see
But it will only cause me to feel
you more
—as I cry from bended knee
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Scheme | XXA XXA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 1110110 1111010011 111101111 11 1111101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 198 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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