Analysis of Winning So
I play the highway one on one,
the miles referee
And chase my spirit’s center line,
direction up to me
The wind to fire the starting gun,
with rules set long ago
All past and future curbside bound,
—this moment winning so
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | AB XB AC XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111 0101 01110101 010111 011100101 111101 1101011 110101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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