Analysis of To Adorn
The words better naked,
the song better clothed
My feelings stripped bare,
my lyrics exposed
I flash and I streak,
the melody warms
Now fully unrobed,
—my song to adorn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Scheme | AX XX XX AX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010 01101 11011 11001 11011 01001 1101 11101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 206 |
Words | 34 |
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) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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