Analysis of If You Ask...
If you ask the right questions
expect silence to answer
When begging for the truth
—your poverty shows
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 1110110 0110110 110101 11001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 144 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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