Analysis of Ed's Sanity



One, two, three, I am being held,
     far from auspicious harm,
         as I quickly letter ED a note,
             saving his sanity from slipping far away.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 110101 111010101 101100110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 160
Words 28
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 25

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Written on February 13, 2023

Submitted by on February 13, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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