Analysis of Wisdom's Tooth
A young poet is to an
older man
As an old poet is to a
younger man
When young then old,
when old then young
The future borrowed,
the past twice sung
The old man’s knowledge,
the young man’s youth
To bite the deepest
—with wisdom’s tooth
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Scheme | AA XA XB XB XC XC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110111 101 11110110 101 1111 1111 0101 0111 01110 0111 11010 111 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 270 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 25, 2019
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 25, 2019
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