Analysis of The Price Of Joy ?



The answer never welcome,
—the price of joy is pain

A question forever mired,
—in millennial disdain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 0101010 011111 0100101 0010001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 139
Words 21
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 17, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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