Analysis of That Horse
Every scepter, every throne,
reverts again anew
The god’s, their will divided,
in Iliads of truth
All wars of good intention,
paved avenues to hell
Honor shamed by Zeus renamed
—that horse where judgment dwells
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011001 010101 0111010 0111 1111010 11011 1011101 111101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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