Analysis of A Wanton Barter
Everyone’s life is tragic,
but who calls out the score
The Jester or the Hangman,
the Undertaker sure
Everyone’s nights are haunted,
when sleeping with the Muse
Each dream a wanton barter
—your memories to lose
(Haverford Pennsylvania: May, 2020)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 111101 0101010 01001 11110 110101 1101010 110011 1000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 244 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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