Analysis of The End
Married
to the sound
of their own voice
Divorced
from those
who elected them to serve
Philanderers
of a
bigger truth
Infidels
in the end
—only to themselves
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2013
Scheme | XXA XXX AXX XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 101 1111 01 11 1010111 1 10 101 100 001 10101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 206 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 2 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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