Analysis of Wittgenstein Was Right
The sum of all possibility,
true nature of our soul
To act upon or take flight from,
virtues to extol
What may or may not happen,
to inspire or pretend
The choice is ours, the will empowers
—to flee or to ascend
(Bryn Mawr College: September, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110100 1101101 11011111 10101 1111110 101101 0111001010 111101 11010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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