Analysis of Calling Out Just Once
What is not profane,
need not be defended
Like a sunrise or waterfall,
—or the laughter of a child
The best of life tenures,
beyond our confirmation
Calling out just once,
—over and over again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2013)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 111010 101110 1010101 011110 0110010 10111 1001001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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