Analysis of The Hangman's Noose
As time unweaves,
its mask deceives
—to hide a bigger truth
The past and future
threaded strands
—to braid the hangman’s noose
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)
| Scheme | AAX XAA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 111 110101 01010 101 11011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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