Analysis of Fault Line
Clothed in fraud,
his disguise supreme
Frightening listeners,
confusion schemed
His world inside,
a caldera waits
Armageddon trembling
—the hour late
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 10101 100100 0101 1101 0101 010100 0101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 182 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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