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 |
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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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