Analysis of Captured & Slain
Where have all the Poets gone,
has time then captured and slain
Those heraldic writers of messaged truth
—whose shields once bore their names
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 1110101 1111001 101010111 111111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 180 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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