Analysis of To Me
Poetry is to be given away
and never ever sold
A gift beyond what time demands
—and wrapped in leaves of gold
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)
Scheme | XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 1001111001 010101 01011101 010111 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 151 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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