Analysis of Devil's Talk



The threshold of lies
is hearsay

The jailer and killer
—of truth

(Devil’s Tower: July, 2019)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 0111 11 010010 11 10101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 93
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 18, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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