Analysis of House Arrest
Kidnapped by the Muses,
sentence now unknown
Thoughts are held for ransom,
will denied the throne
Kingdom banned in exile,
usurper in control
Welcoming confinement,
—house arrest extolled
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 10101 111110 10101 10101 1001 100010 10101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 226 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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