Analysis of Or
Could or couldn’t
Would or wouldn’t
Should or shouldn’t
Can’t or would not
Does or doesn’t
Was or wasn’t
Has or hasn’t
Can or cannot
Must or mustn’t
Have or haven’t
Are or aren’t
Is or is not
Did or didn’t
Had or hadn’t
Do or then don’t
—you will or will not
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 111 111 1111 111 111 111 1110 111 111 1110 1111 111 111 1111 11111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 309 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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