Analysis of The Ostrich
Do you draw on the facts
or color with bias
Blurring the truth
—your head in the sand
(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)
Scheme | XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Lanturne (40%) |
Metre | 111101 110110 1001 11001 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 110 |
Words | 21 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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