Analysis of Trappings
It’s not what you put on
but what you take off
Each trapping a hangman
—and choking its cost
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
Scheme | XX XX X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) |
Metre | 111111 11111 110010 01011 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 134 |
Words | 23 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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