Analysis of True Words
Once written,
no longer in need of defense
Once spoken,
no longer in need of repetition
Once embraced,
no longer in need of approval
Once answered
—no longer in need
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)
Scheme | AX AA XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110 11001101 110 110011010 101 110011010 110 11001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 202 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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