Analysis of Blood Line
To hurt…
just to know I can feel
To bleed…
just to know I’m alive
The wounds of my fathers
those never to heal
In remembrance
—the past never dies
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XX XA XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 111111 11 111101 011110 11011 0010 01101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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