Analysis of Account Cleared
The funding of wisdom,
bankrolling death
Thoughts to withdraw
from a ledger unspent
Refinancing life,
true folly indeed
With memory cashed in
—eternity free
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110 101 1101 101001 0101 11001 110010 01001 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 194 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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