Analysis of Au Contraire
They come to me couplets,
they come to me tight
They come to me rhyming,
they come to me right
With lessened confusion,
more light in the air
All youthful illusions,
exposed,
—‘au contraire’
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | AB XB XC AXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 11111 11111 111110 11111 110010 11001 110010 01 11 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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