Analysis of Left In Song
Be somebody’s hero,
give more than you get
Reach for something bigger,
cast a wider net
Be somebody’s hero,
your name to live beyond
The casket and the headstone
—your memory left in song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)
| Scheme | Ab cb Ax xx c |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 11111 111010 10101 1110 111101 010001 1100101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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