Analysis of Sacrificial Lambs
Hiding their poison,
colleges feign
Promising sunshine,
delivering rain
Knowledge infected,
politics vile
Lambs to the slaughter
—Athena defiled
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA BX CB C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110 1001 1001 01001 10010 101 11010 0101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 180 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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