Analysis of Hiding In Plain Sight
Tranquil and quiet…
a walk in the park
Until life’s Trojan Horse
rolls in from the dark
Cancer invading,
you must parry back
Each moment recaptured
—a present still wrapped
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2020)
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 01001 011101 10101 10010 11101 110010 01011 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 212 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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