Analysis of Deeper Roots
You can burn a book
but not its truth
Flames no match
for time’s reproof
Planted deep
below the lime
Its seeds will flower
— where light to shine
(West Campus: May 6, 2024)
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1111 111 111 101 0101 11110 1111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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