Analysis of My Gift
To the ladies,
my youth
To the children,
my love
But to forever,
my words
Hawks that fly
—with the doves
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 11 1010 11 11010 11 111 101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 138 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 02, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on June 27, 2019
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