Analysis of The Words
The eyes of a poet
The heart of a warrior
The soul of a prophet
—but the words of a man
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)
Scheme | AXAX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) |
Metre | 011010 0110100 011010 101101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 128 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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