Analysis of Rising Above
Poetry has no gender,
it seeks a higher line
Never selling out so cheaply
—as the masses would define
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA BA B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1001110 110101 10101110 1010101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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