Analysis of Forever Wet
If no man is an island,
what can one man be
If no man stands alone,
to write the words, himself to free
If never beats that distant drum,
one marching out of step
Who will swim against the tide,
—their ink forever wet
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110 11111 111101 11010111 11011101 110111 1110101 110101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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