Analysis of Ancient Sins
Saturn burns,
as eight rings turn
Its truth on fire,
no lessons learned
A gas filled magnet,
for solar wind
Where ice and rock
—hide ancient sins
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 1111 11110 1101 01110 1101 1101 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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