Analysis of For Thirty Shekels of Gold
On that last day of the super
We dine with Jesus
I sat at His right-hand
he always knew
that the flesh is
weak in man
He looked at me again
fresh eyes journeyed into my soul
there to find the reason
for the unholy betrayal
My soul replied in broken tears
for thirty shekels of gold
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| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 11111010 11110 111111 111 1011 101 111101 11100111 111010 10010010 11010101 1101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 287 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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