Analysis of Tip Of The Spear
An army of lions…
led by a lamb
An army of sheep…
led by a lion
The fangs out in front
first bite is the deepest
A wound more than fatal
—destruction sublime
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110 1101 11011 11010 01101 111010 011110 01001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 191 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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