Analysis of Only A Poet
Only a Poet…
can change feelings into air,
begetting a new feeling
Only a Poet…
can transform thoughts into verse,
birthing a new thought
Only a Poet…
can define the indefinable,
words meaning more than their letters allow
And only a Poet can stab time in the heart,
to bleed free and eternal,
—only a Poet
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
| Scheme | Axx Axx Abx xbA x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 1110011 0100110 10010 1011011 10011 10010 101000100 1101111001 010010111001 1110010 10010 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 356 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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