Analysis of Couplets On Fire
Questioning forward,
answering back
Ideas move inward,
time has gone slack
This moment eternal,
reference hacked
The couplets on fire,
—reason attacked
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Scheme | AB AB CD XD C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010 1001 010110 1111 110010 1001 01110 1001 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 193 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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