Analysis of Glory Unsung
Victory is a song unwritten,
whose words beget the score
With truth in play, all time relayed,
past battles, future wars
Yesterday winless, tomorrow tied,
the moment zero sum
The hour prescient, each second dear
—glory still unsung
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101010 110101 1101111 110101 101011 010101 0101001101 10101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 265 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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