Analysis of A Kingdom For A Poem
I imagined myself rich,
I saw myself poor
From the suite to the stable,
my soul cried for more
The sweeter the temptation,
the more dour the gain
A kingdom for a poem
—my treasure renamed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 1111 1011010 11111 0100010 011001 0101010 11001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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