Analysis of The Token
While writing verse from now till then,
its toll I humbly paid
Across a bridge where time had stopped
—the truth to pass each way
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Scheme | XX XA A |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 11011111 111101 01011111 011111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 170 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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