Analysis of Enemy Within
If conflict is human,
is violence a game
The law of the jungle
by some other name
A mortal endeavor,
to choose when we fight
With nature in judgment
—the wrong from the right
(Wayne Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110 110001 011010 11101 010010 11111 110010 01101 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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