Analysis of Two Fathers
God made me a man…
the devil a poet
To argue with the Almighty
of his methods and plan
God made me a mortal,
but divinely inspired
Two feet on the ground
—flaming the fan
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
| Scheme | AX XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 010010 11010010 111001 111010 1010010 11101 1001 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 39 |
| 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) | 8 |
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