Analysis of Vanity's Ghost
The narcissism
of small differences…
The egos crown
of thorns
The sharper each
individual barb
The more frequently
it’s worn
A grand
pontification
Whose wind
blows just one way
Into the face of
vanity’s ghost
In jealous
—disarray
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX XX XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100 111000 0101 11 0101 01001 01100 11 01 0010 11 1111 01011 11 010 01 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 275 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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