Analysis of Be Most Careful
Be careful as you age …
when they try to convince you
that your rough edges need to
come off
Be careful when they say that
“Your words need to be more
carefully chosen and more appropriate
to the politically elite”
Be careful when they threaten those
things that you have developed over
time that they will never appreciate
or understand
But be most careful when they tell
you… “We are really your friends and
have only your best interests at heart,”
—be most careful
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)
Scheme | XAAX XXXX XBXX XXXX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 1111011 1111011 11 1101111 111111 10010010100 100100001 11011101 111101010 111110010 101 11110111 11110110 110111011 1110 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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