Analysis of The Vilest Of Lies
Political correctness…
the new dirty word
Meaning perverted,
excuses now heard
It masks and it covers,
what it most tries to hide
As it preys and then smothers
—with the vilest of lies
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA BX BX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100010 01101 10010 01011 110110 111111 1110110 10111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 230 |
| 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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