Analysis of Temptation Blind
Romancing reality
the poet said
“I get paid for that
I get out of bed”
With words that hover
and words that rhyme
Truth undercover,
—temptation blind
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)
| Scheme | XA XA BX BX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 0101 11111 11111 11110 0111 1010 0101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 200 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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