Analysis of A Lyrical Sum
The words come as brothers,
their sister a song
With mother a feeling,
and father headstrong
Relation internal,
all melding as one
Each needing the other,
—a lyrical sum
(Train From New Hampshire: May,2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011110 11001 110010 0101 010010 11011 110010 01001 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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