Analysis of Still Asking Why
Refusing to define
Even worse to explain
On the surface descriptive
At its essence mundane
Restating excuses
Ensconcing the lie
The sage waxed poetic
—you still asking why
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Scheme | XAXAXBXB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 101101 1010010 111001 010010 101 011010 11101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 204 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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