Analysis of Lyrical Kill Shot
My words are a saxophone,
my phrases a drum
My stanzas a keyboard,
my rhyming a gun
The Muse is my bullet,
the readers a shield
The darkness my target
—its bullseye revealed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
Scheme | XX XX AB AB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11001 11001 11001 011110 01001 010110 11001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 205 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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