Analysis of False Reflection
Stop trying to be a poet,
and say what you feel
Kill off the dilettante
both hands on the wheel
In front of the mirror,
we all wear a crown
Are your verses to be written
—by a sage or a clown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Scheme | AB AB XC XC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011010 01111 1101 11101 011010 11101 11101110 101101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 230 |
Words | 46 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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