Analysis of Stretched Too Thin
Imaginations can be stretched;
Creativeness alive,
But hopefully it will not fetch
A lie that we connived.
When truth is stretched, it can snap back
And hurt the lying one.
The one whose truth was stretched too thin
With honor down to none.
| Scheme | AXXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 0010111 010001 11001111 01111 11111111 010101 01111111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on October 03, 2023
Submitted by stevec.24118 on October 03, 2023
Modified by stevec.24118 on October 03, 2023
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