Analysis of The Devil's Luck
You can’t step into the same river twice,
and have the water be the same
You can’t throw wishes into the wind,
and recall them time unclaimed
You can’t put a baby back in the womb,
once the cord of life has been cut
And you can’t change a lie into the truth,
your intention—the devil’s good luck
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101101 01010101 111100101 011101 1110101001 10111111 0111010101 101001011 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 345 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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