Analysis of Dark Ransom



Hope trumped last,
—a prisoner of death

A final capitulation,
—devil's ransom beset

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 111 010011 0100010 101001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 120
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 03, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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