Analysis of First Cut
Knowing
not repeating
The weakness
of all refrain
A first cut
true and deepest
Once healed
—its scar remains
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | AA XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 1010 010 1101 011 1010 11 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 149 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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