Analysis of Dragon Fire
The progressive death knell sounded
—one final serpent to mount
With excuses now abandoned
—the dragon’s fire is out
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 00101110 1101011 10101010 0101011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 159 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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