Analysis of The Academic Mask
Learning should be an open meadow
and not a cave to hide
When coupled with experience
its lessons to abide
No degree or title, money or fame
will direct you toward the light
Life’s one great lesson—living free
the academic’s plight
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111101 010111 11010100 110101 1011101011 10110101 11110101 00101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 277 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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