Analysis of Given & Heard
Having too much respect
for the language
Trying never to get cute
with the words
Being too much in debt
to the feelings
Writing only what was given
—and heard
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 1010 1010111 101 101101 1010 10101110 01 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 200 |
| 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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