Analysis of An Irish Poet
Irish Poet by choice,
the teachers did fail
Because of my voice,
not to their unavail
The structures they hammered,
the forms they imposed
All lost to my whimsy,
—myself I then chose
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | AB AB XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 01011 01111 1111 010110 01101 111110 1111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 213 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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