Analysis of Fair Winds Ahead
The better the poet
the fuller the sails
—and the further the lines may stretch
The more ranging the verse
set to feeling’s unanchored
—the more chances of fair winds ahead
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | AXX XAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 01001 00100111 011001 11101 011011101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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