Analysis of A New Dawn



The meter—the castle,
  the rhyme in the moat

The battlements weary,
  all meaning afloat

The knights at the ready,
  swords sharpened and drawn

Each piercing a sonnet,
—each flag a new dawn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)


Scheme XA BA BC XC X
Poetic Form
Metre 010010 01001 010010 11001 011010 11001 110010 11011 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 223
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 03, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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