Analysis of The First Cut ...
Avoid needless
complexity
Say it
straight out
Frost and
then Hemingway
Set the rules
down
Between meaning
and verbiage
The idea
is king
Sharpen
the point
The message
— the thing
(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)
| Scheme | XAXX XXXX BXXB XXXB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110 0100 11 11 10 110 101 1 0110 0100 0010 11 10 01 010 01 110010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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