Analysis of The Devil's Son
Off in the distance,
he was whispering my name
What started as a rumor,
audible and plain
My parking meter empty,
the hour glass had run
What life only borrowed,
reclaimed—the devil’s son
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 1110011 1101010 10001 1101010 010111 11101 010101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 27, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on March 27, 2020
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