Analysis of Backhanded
All you can be is all you can be,”
damning with faint praise
A lover, not a girl to wed
—left hand falsely raised
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 111111111 10111 01010111 11101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 139 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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