Analysis of Incantation



Birth—Coronation
Belief—Creation
Pain— Debilitation
Sin—Damnation
Joy—Association
Despair—Isolation
Praise—Adulation
Time—Anticipation
Truth—Revelation
Faith—Salvation
Death—Divination
Life—Reincarnation

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)


Scheme AAAAAAAAAAAA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010 01010 11 1010 10010 01010 1010 10010 1010 1010 1010 100010 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 253
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 1
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 16, 2016

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