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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