Analysis of Verum Pretium



When eternity is mortgaged
  —your soul its true cost

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme XX X
Poetic Form Quinzaine  (67%)
Metre 10100110 11111 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 90
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 26, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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