Analysis of The Tightening Noose
Parents,
hover over their children
Adults,
smothering their young
Choices curtailed,
freedom spoon fed
Gallows
—for youth to be hung
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 1010110 01 10011 1001 1011 10 11111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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