Analysis of The Answers Rebuffed
Can you own the present,
while renting the past
Can you steal back the truth,
from the future at last
Will the reasoned excuse,
ever be reason enough
For all questions to merge,
with the answers rebuffed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2106)
Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11001 111101 101011 101001 1011001 111011 101001 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 244 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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