Analysis of Down Through The Ages
There’s safety in rhythm
salvation in rhyme
Truth in the format
a structure sublime
To children and sages
their message rings true
And down through the ages
—speaks loudest to you
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010 01001 1001 01001 110010 11011 011010 11011 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 220 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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