Analysis of House of cards
Servant, Queen, King, Ace,
Who will surpass whom;
The world is a house of cards.
By breaking the bond of love,
The bird in the cage flew away;
Those who were yours own, later become strangers.
| Scheme | XXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 11011 0110111 1100111 01001101 11011100110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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