Analysis of Plato's Bequeath
The extravagance of leisure
—to have exploited spare time
Beyond the reach of my grandfathers
—beyond the joy and the pain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 00100110 111011 01011110 0101001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 163 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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