Analysis of The Charm
With no respect for labels,
dead branches on a tree
Refusing thrice to do the dance,
a worthless reverie
Rejecting their consensus,
all singing to the choir
Each word anew I write in blood
—whose truth I do aspire
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 110101 01011101 010100 0101010 1101010 11011101 111101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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