Analysis of Firing Line



In dealing with the Russians
William F. Buckley said:
“You must attach strings to your proposals or the Russians will take advantage of you”.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 0101010 101101 110111101010101101011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 145
Words 25
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Written on October 04, 2023

Submitted by raetally on October 04, 2023

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