Analysis of Last Verse
I never chose to live among you,
and choose to die alone
My thoughts in writing here beside me,
—last verse my ticket home
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 110111011 011101 110101011 111101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 163 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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