Analysis of Katana Slashings
Do words serve the meaning,
or meaning the words
Simply delivered,
complexity heard
Muddled presentment,
the message undone
Brevity pointed,
to pierce zero-sum
(The New Room: December, 2021)
| Scheme | XX AA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 11001 10010 01001 10010 01001 10010 11101 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 196 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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