Analysis of The Ultimate Choice
Living as if already dead,
—his words new
That morning he first understood,
the verse flew
The closer he got to the edge,
the deeper his voice
That day he fell over himself,
—the ultimate choice
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110101 111 1101101 011 01011101 01011 11111001 01001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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