Analysis of Je Ne Sais Quoi
Inferable, unknowable,
all senses on fire
Beyond contradiction,
sans myriad liars
Its vision unstated,
true knowledge unfeigned
Born into our souls
—its silence to reign
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
| Scheme | AX XX BB XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10100 110110 01010 110010 110010 1101 101101 11011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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