Analysis of A Sacrilege
Are people religious because
they’re good?
Or good, because they’re
religious?
The question remains, its
verdict unclaimed
The wrong answer deemed,
--- sacrilegious
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001001 11 11011 010 010011 1001 01101 010 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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