Analysis of A Singular Refrain



Questions are often bigger
  than their answers

With horizons wide and spacious,
  timelines unrestrained

Questions often lead
  to other questions

With answers left to wallow
  —in a singular refrain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1011010 1110 10101010 1001 10101 11010 1101110 0010001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 230
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 11, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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