Analysis of Siamese Endowment
Keeping it to yourself,
while giving it away
Only poetry is split,
and structured this way
Keeping it to yourself,
then passing the torch
A deft oxymoron,
as light is re-sourced
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
Scheme | Ab cb Ax xc x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 110101 1010011 01011 101101 11001 01110 11111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 196 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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