Analysis of Truth In Default
All the young Jews,
all the young Christians,
all the young Muslims,
debt to confuse
Abraham crying,
prophesy fading,
hellish debentures
—Heaven to lose
(The New Room: July, 2021) O
| Scheme | AXXA BBXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 10110 10110 1101 1010 110 10010 1011 01111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 175 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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