Analysis of Veritas Rex



Nothing more powerful
than speaking the truth  
Pangs of deception
beguile uncouth  
Spoken immortal
knighted profound
Today and tomorrow
—veracity crowned

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)


Scheme ABXBACXC X
Poetic Form
Metre 101100 11001 11010 0111 10010 1001 01001 01001 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 183
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 08, 2023

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