Analysis of Innocence Skipped
The blonde playing hopscotch
had a tattoo
In a collision of eras,
her ponytail flew
As innocence skipped,
the ink started to run
A bastardized image
—of time overrun
(Villanova University Campus: October, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01101 1001 00010110 0101 11001 011011 0110 1110 010010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 204 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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