Analysis of Cross Hairs
High caliber verse
the cartridge hand loaded
A new target centered
all focus then squared
Its barrel’s been filled
with red molten fury
Whose trigger awaits
—a desperate will
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001 010110 011010 11011 11011 111010 11001 0101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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