Analysis of Not The War...
Losing the election
for doing what’s right
Losing the election
for shedding the light
Losing the election
for standing your ground
Losing the election
for truth honor bound
Losing the election
the battle is lost
Losing the election
—morality’s cost
(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)
| Scheme | Ab Ab Ac Ac Ax Ax x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100010 11001 100010 11001 100010 11011 100010 11101 100010 01011 100010 11 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 290 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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