Analysis of Don't Look Back
When staring death in the face,
do not look back over your shoulder”
(From My New Novel: ‘Death From The Sky’)
| Scheme | XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quinzaine (33%) |
| Metre | 1101001 111110110 111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 116 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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