Analysis of To Fly
Alone,
without being lonely
In love,
with the air and the sky
In tune,
with those voices now calling
Released
—and forever to fly
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)
Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 011010 01 101001 01 1110110 01 001011 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 163 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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