Analysis of The Mark Of Cain
Designated driver,
your road to end at last
The choice was yours, mistake inured,
your future now your past
Designated driver,
those high beams in your eyes
A haunting name, the lasting blame
—that night your dreams reprise
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | Ab xb Ac xc x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 111111 01110101 110111 10010 111011 01010101 111101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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