Analysis of Not Fully Shorn
Posting then before I’m done,
the baby not quite born
Feelings chase the words I write,
—the sheep not fully shorn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 1010111 010111 1010111 011101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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