Analysis of Those Letters Unspared
Often accused of abusing the words,
I stand guilty here as charged
Their purpose to serve my feelings unnerved,
when into the darkness I bard
Used as a shield, my will not to yield
their ink splattered blood stains aglow
No guilt do I bear for those letters unspared
—as their corpses define what I know
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XX XB AB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001101001 1110111 1101111001 10101011 110111111 11101101 1111111101 111001111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 343 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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