Analysis of Twin Pillars
Is there a balance
Between poetry and prose
Anymore than a balance
between these and those
Is there a balance
Between poetry and prose
Or maybe a marriage
Where ‘heaven only knows’
If there’s a balance
Between poetry and prose
Are there rules to be broken
Where anything goes
Or is the real balance
Between poetry and prose
Truth sitting on top
—their twin pillars below
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)
Scheme | ABab ABxb aBxb aBxx x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 0110001 011010 01101 11010 0110001 110010 110101 11010 0110001 1111110 1101 110110 0110001 11011 111001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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