Analysis of The Ending Assured
If you’re losing you’re winning,
the path leads one way
The steps to the kingdom,
a carpet of pain
If your will is unbroken,
your commitment in stone
The ending assured
—as you sit on the throne
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110 01111 011010 01011 1111010 101001 01001 111101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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