Analysis of Standing Alone
Can you have
without owning
Can you embrace
what’s on loan
Can you give
without taking
Can your love
—stand alone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)
Scheme | XA XB XA XB X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 0110 1101 011 111 0110 111 101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 148 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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