Analysis of The Simplest Of Words
I could package it different,
I could present it complex,
—I could try to impress and deceive
But the message eternal,
and the one truly spoken,
—needs the simplest of words to conceive
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
| Scheme | XXA XXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101100 1110110 111101001 1010010 0011010 101011101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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