Analysis of Beneath The Veil
Silver lining happiness
though there
not often seen
In many shades of inference
ignoring red
and green
Slight handed and implicit
though felt
still out of view
Beneath the veil resplendent
and known …
to only you
(Haverford College: September, 2023)
| Scheme | XXAXXAXXBXXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010100 11 1101 01011100 0101 01 1100010 11 1111 0101010 01 1101 10010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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