Analysis of The Devil Mute
Virtue when expressive,
deafens bad intention
Its voice to live beyond,
excuses and retort
A minstrel plays a song unsung,
as sages rise to dance
All words rephrased in lyric tones
—the devil mute and gone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 11010 111101 01001 01010101 110111 1110101 010101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 239 |
Words | 40 |
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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