Analysis of The Cost
The more we are given
the more that gets taken away
As Stephen Hawking looks out
from his empowering inferno
His vision to create and inspire
anew…
Exhausts the very flame
—he lives to ignite
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2015)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011110 01111001 1101011 110100010 110101001 01 010101 11101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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