Analysis of To Count On
The greatest times
are the one’s that surprise us
The greatest people
are the one’s who don’t
(H.U.P. May, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 0101 1011011 01010 10111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 114 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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