Analysis of To Live & Die
To live as an artist,
but die as a man
Dust forever chasing
—what heaven began
(Center City Philadelphia: January, 2015)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 111110 11101 101010 11001 10100100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 123 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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