Analysis of Veracity Returned
Lying to myself…
the truth swimming free
Escaping prevarication,
abandoning my schemes
The water got deep,
its weight dragged and pulled
Till veracity returned
—resuscitation fulfilled
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XX XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 01101 0100010 010011 01011 11101 1010001 001001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 230 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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