Analysis of Fatherless And Alone
With every cold defeat
of the human spirit
The answers move deeper
within the polar arc
Victim to its wanton roaming
and endless chill
Questions left to wander,
—fatherless and alone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2013)
| Scheme | XX AX XX AX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100101 101010 010110 010101 10111010 0101 101110 100001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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