Analysis of Sagacity
Darkness,
the beginning path
Burns brightest
at the end
Storm clouds
over a troubled youth
Success now on
the mend
Struggles, trials,
and failures past
Just fuel,
to keep you warm
Sagacity,
the final truth
Eyes seeing past
the harm
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XXAB XCXB XDXX ACDX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 00101 110 101 11 100101 0111 01 1010 0101 110 1111 1 0101 1101 01 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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