Analysis of One Well
There are Poets
for the stage
And Poets
for the page
The difference
often subtle
In your eye,
and in your ear
There are Poets
for the stage
And Poets
for the page
One well for them
to draw from
Two voices,
—flowing clear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
| Scheme | AB AB xx xx AB AB xx xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 101 010 101 0100 1010 011 0011 1110 101 010 101 1111 111 110 101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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