Analysis of Too Short To Dare
Asking life to meet half way,
you always lag behind
The focus on the things you lack,
not the gold you mine
All compromise and copping out,
your table left half bare
The brass ring distant and remote,
—your reach too short to dare
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 11101 01010111 10111 1100101 110111 01110001 111111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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