Analysis of Whose Key
My Grandfather was a Poet,
my Father was a thief
Their spirits fight to own my soul
—my Son in cradle sleeps
My Grandfather spoke of beauty,
my Father spoke of sin
The truth now locked within a voice
—whose key I leave to him
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX AX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 110101 11011111 110101 1101110 110111 01110101 111111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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