Analysis of Welsh Leftovers
I swallowed hard the feelings scorned,
to finish off my plate
But filled I was in sated form
a glutton postulate
I bit off more than I could chew,
with meat still on the bone
My stomach full of fiery barbs
—leftovers unatoned
(Villanova University: January, 2020)
| Scheme | AB XB XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 110111 11110101 0110 11111111 111101 110111001 101 0100100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 257 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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