Analysis of Laura's Captive
Fifty years a poet
More than that a man
My spirit held in ransom
Laura’s captive once again
Fifty years a poet
And all those years a boy
The written word a treasured gift
—my soul’s most precious toy
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | Axxx Abxb x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 11101 1101010 110101 101010 011101 01010101 111101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 236 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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