Analysis of What Is - Is
Truth needs no audience
or vows of acceptance
The eagle flies highest
— when flying alone
(Dreamsleep: April, 2024)
Scheme | AAXX X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
Metre | 111100 111010 010110 11001 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 118 |
Words | 20 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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