Analysis of The Story
Tell a good story poorly
not a poor story well
Your current raging over
—all trough laden swells
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 1011010 101101 1101010 11101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 133 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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