Analysis of So Help Me God
Religion has too many givens,
the takeaways few, far between
Questioning ravaged, intelligence savaged
—the mind left to wander and dream
(Bryn Mawr College: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 010111010 011101 10010010010 01111001 11010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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