Analysis of As Night The Day
Do your politics define you…
are your views then left or right?
Does the axe you grind cut sharp and clean
or tear into the night?
Do the precepts that you claim to own
just end up owning you?
Is every word what you believe
—and to thine self be true?
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)
Scheme | AB XB XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110011 1111111 101111101 110101 10111111 111101 110011101 011111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 295 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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