Analysis of But Spoken Once
The delivery,
incidental to the message
The format,
duly chosen for the sound
The listener,
singled out with times forgiveness
The truth
—but spoken once to then abound
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)
Scheme | XX XA BX XA B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00100 0101010 01 1010101 0100 10111010 01 11011101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 211 |
Words | 32 |
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) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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