Analysis of Either Or
Happy…
writing poetry
Miserable…
writing prose
Divided
with each word to gift
Joyful
—with each thought to know
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2015)
Scheme | AA BX XX BX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 10100 1000 101 010 11111 10 11111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 159 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 2 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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