Analysis of Shining A Light
We should be freeing and emancipating
the poor with opportunity
—not underwriting their poverty with welfare
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Scheme | XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111000100 0110100 11010110011 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 153 |
Words | 20 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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