Analysis of Licentia
A strange thing happens
once you’re as old as your heroes
The mystery less enchanting,
the romance nearly gone
A stranger thing happens
when you outlive your heroes
The nuances shouting boldly
—permission now won
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | AB XX AB XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 11111110 01001010 001101 010110 111110 01001010 01011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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