Analysis of The Chameleons
Bravery and fear
not either or
But versions of…
Valor and shame
brought heretofore
Mixed pieces of…
A riddle to confound
the poet’s mum
As glory weds disdain…
Courage and fear
not zero-sum
But oft times look the same
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | AB C DB C XE X AE D X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10001 1101 1101 1001 101 1101 010101 0101 110101 1001 1101 111101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 257 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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