Analysis of All Scepters Disowned
I don’t bow to money,
I don’t bow to fame
I kneel to that one thing,
that time cannot change
I don’t speak for ‘right,’
and won’t speak for ‘wrong’
My liege is the truth,
all court jesters gone
I don’t hope to be knighted,
my shield more concave
And rejecting all title,
the past still enslaved
My will lay unbroken,
my heart for a throne
A crown jeweled with memory,
—all scepters disowned
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
Scheme | AX XX XX XX XX XX XX AX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 11111 111111 11101 11111 01111 11101 11101 1111110 11101 0010110 01101 111010 11101 0111100 1101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 446 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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