Analysis of A Regent's Tale
Those hidden lies
breed louder cries,
deception setting in
What’s birthed in darkness
kills in light,
exposing deeper sins
The poison fostered
regent’s tale,
its message civic spun
For us to swallow
not to chew,
inscripted zero-sum
(The New Room: July, 2022)
| Scheme | AAX XXX XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1101 010100 01010 101 010101 01010 101 110101 11110 111 1101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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