Analysis of The Abdicate
Standard bearer,
above the fray
Others follow,
trackless fields
Trailing echo’s,
dead and gone
Then tomorrow
—tomorrow then
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
| Scheme | XX AX XX AX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 0101 1010 11 1010 101 101 011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 158 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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