Analysis of Without The Other
Life without death
joy without pain
No reference, no bearing
no loss—and no gain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 1011 1011 1100110 11011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 120 |
| Words | 18 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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