Analysis of The Last Laugh
Outside the backdrop of the given world,
the emptiness fled
And deep in the recesses of what’s never to be,
contradiction fed
Far beyond meaning and stated intent,
all reasons turned to dust
With nothing to prove and less to embrace
—the laugh at last on us
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110101 01001 0100100101011 0101 1011001001 110111 1101101101 011111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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