Analysis of Its Own Reward



Life,
—forever promising more

Death,
—its own reward

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 1 0101001 1 1101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 91
Words 12
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 23
Words per stanza (avg) 4
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 07, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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