Analysis of Our Blood Will Drain
Three dead cops…
our thoughts and prayers
Will we ever learn,
what will make us care
The end will not come,
as false prophecy ordains
In political correctness,
our blood will drain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Scheme | AX XX XA XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 10101 11101 11111 01111 111001 00100010 10111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 218 |
Words | 36 |
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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