Analysis of Deaths Twins
The friendly enemy,
or enemy friend
What matters the difference,
or need to pretend
Either stabbed in the front,
or knifed in the back
The wound just as fatal,
in either attack
Blood given freely,
or blood taken dark
Veins running empty,
leading back to the heart
To face it undaunted,
or preyed from the rear
Deaths twins will approach,
—on the tip of one spear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
Scheme | AB XB XC XC AX AX XD XD A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010100 11001 1100100 11101 101001 11001 011110 01001 11010 11101 11010 101101 111010 11101 11101 101111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 401 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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