Analysis of New Verse Begins
The layman will ask…
always questioning what
The poet observes…
always adding a why
The universe inhales
within the difference
And with each ensuing breath,
—new verse begins
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)
| Scheme | XX AX AX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011 11001 01001 11001 0101 010100 0111001 1101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 217 |
| Words | 32 |
| 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) | 6 |
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