Analysis of Lost In Dismay
Do you spend twenty percent of your time
acquiring your beliefs
And eighty percent of your time
in defense
Do you have blinders on
about what you conceive
In fear of the critics
pretense
Are your views narrow focused
and then watered down
As the truth disavowed
slips away
Is your memory tainted
in times left to waste
As your efforts
—retreat in dismay
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)
Scheme | AX AB XX XB XX XC XX XC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001111 010101 01001111 001 111101 011101 011010 01 1111010 01101 10101 101 1110010 01111 1110 01001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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