Analysis of The Debt
Buying my life back,
a Poem at a time
The debt was slowly paid,
in rhythm and in rhyme
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 10111 010101 011101 010001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 124 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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