Analysis of His Riches Claimed
His Riches Claimed
A fool
A rich father
A poor boy
A dream
The theater
Of experience
One whines
The other screams
The reckoning
Once predicted
Is here
The world in flames
The fool
Just canon fodder
The boy,
—his riches claimed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | A bcdxcxxxxxxxbcdA x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 01 0110 011 01 0100 10100 11 0101 0100 1010 11 0101 01 11010 01 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 248 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 16, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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