Analysis of Truth So Intoned
The Piper of destiny
calls from the unknown
Without lyre or harp,
his truth so intoned
All sirens left deafened,
tumbling over themselves
As a choir of Angels
—from his flute are bespelled
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Scheme | XX XA AX XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100 11001 01111 11101 11011 1001001 1010110 11111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 229 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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