Analysis of Will We Ever Learn
Liberals with a credit card,
Debts they’ll never pay
Mortgaging our future,
The present now ‘in play’
Conservatives with a checkbook,
The balance no concern
Hope now bouncing downward
—when will we ever learn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Scheme | XAXA XBXB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 11101 1001010 010101 0100101 010101 111010 111101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 247 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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