Analysis of A Promise Wed
The soul is not
by nature born
Or by the earth
breastfed
It kneels before
loves distant star
Whose light
—its promise wed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 1101 1101 1 1101 1101 11 1101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 161 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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