Analysis of Where Pigs Fly
The magnitude of ignorance
staggers beyond
the scope of imagining,
a weakening throng
The danger of assumption,
its hard biting edge
empowers deception
shoved over the ledge
The vacuums of denial
we fight to defend
are lost in the moment
pushed out to the end
This emptiness we carry
and knowledge we fear
footnote our destruction
—as fools shed a tear
(Rosemont College: November, 2021)
| Scheme | XXXX ABAB XCXC XXAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101100 1001 0110100 01001 0101010 11101 010010 11001 0101010 11101 110010 11101 1100110 01011 110010 11101 110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 396 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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