Analysis of Two-Roads
Desperate choices
and dead end roads
One sign pointing left
the other right
Each choice a trap
where vision smolders
Each choice a trap
its decision charred
Two roads on fire
the truth igniting
Two roads on fire
—where freedom burns
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)
| Scheme | ax xx Ba Bx Cx Cx c |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 0111 11101 0101 1101 1101 1101 10101 11110 01010 11110 1101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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