Analysis of Crashing The Gate
We searched through the desert
for a welcoming sign
But the truth was a grave marker
—our fate so inclined
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)
Scheme | XX AX A |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 111010 101001 10110110 101101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 145 |
Words | 24 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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