Analysis of Breath Surrendered
Words apprehend
a willing prisoner
—verse to fly between the bars
The latest inmate
with breath surrendered
—an incarcerated bard
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)
| Scheme | XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 010100 1110101 0101 11010 101001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 181 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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