Analysis of Forever On Hold
A literary sociopath…
Hemingway wrote
Both gifted and tortured,
his words they provoke
A verbal combatant,
new victories untold
His last proving fatal
—all memory on hold
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100100 101 110010 11101 010010 110001 111010 110011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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