Analysis of If Not For The Poet
Where have all the
Poets gone
Where are all the
songs unsung
Where does the mystery
unravel sublime
Where does the majesty
reach the Divine
Where does tomorrow
turn into today
If not for the Poet,
we've all lost our way
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
| Scheme | AX AX BX BX XC XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 101 1110 101 110100 01001 110100 1001 1101 10101 111010 111101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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