Analysis of A Poet Is Likened Unto A Warrior
The battle lines are drawn, the plan is set
I draw my sword for yet another skirmish,
readying myself for anything
Then like a whirling dervish,
I strike like a berserker at the first taste of blood
With a million strokes of my instrument,
the battle ends
looking across the plain, I can see for miles the little ribbons Of indigo blood scattered across the parchment countryside,
and I realize that fate has rolled the dice in my favor yet again,
That victory is at long last mine!
I know that there are other battles though
And such are the onus of the poet
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Metre | 0101110111 11111101010 1001110 1101010 11101101111 1010111100 0101 10010111111010101101100101010 01101111010110101 110011111 1111110101 0110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 448 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted by Del_Rios_Song on December 04, 2022
Modified by Del_Rios_Song on December 04, 2022
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