Analysis of 'selfless'
You do good deeds fair and kind
and all praise to you declined.
Doing this and that for no reward
all of it in the name of the lord.
But with thoughts of heaven in your mind.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick (60%) Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 1111101 0111101 101011101 111001101 111110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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