Analysis of Death But A servant
Making love to the Muse
newborns fell upon the page
And we named them one by one
as we lined them up by age
Making love to the Muse
a new progeny was spawned
With death now but a servant
—and each child turned to song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)
| Scheme | Ab xb Ax xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 110101 0111111 1111111 101101 0110011 1111010 011111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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