Analysis of Free Of All Lies
Belief in the end…
if truth be your cross
To break or to bend
veracity’s cost
Last judgment your own
hawks chase as doves fly
One choice to atone
—when free of all lies
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
Scheme | AX AX BC BX C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001 11111 11111 11 11011 11111 11101 11111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 210 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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