Analysis of Opening Night
Auditioning for life,
a one-act play
Rehearsing my part,
to leave or to stay
The audience waiting,
the stage has been set
Opening night,
my birth or my death
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010011 0111 01011 11111 010010 01111 1001 11111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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