Analysis of Their Power To Steal
The charlatans bankrupted
his checking account,
but his love was not overdrawn
Each check that he wrote,
each choice that he made,
trading ingots for righting a wrong
With credit denied
and spirit affirmed,
he continued to endorse what was real
Until bankers and lawyers
destroyed with one stroke,
his wishes—their power to steal
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXA XXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100100 11001 11111101 11111 11111 10101101 11001 01001 1010101111 0110010 01111 11011011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 357 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 22, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 15, 2019
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