Analysis of One's Own Breath
The joy in the writing,
all reading to construe
Spoken loud with one’s own breath
—a vanity so true
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 010010 110101 1011111 010011 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 145 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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