Analysis of Too Bright To Dim
It’s not about Poetics,
but the meaning it involves
The meter, rhyme, and format,
just tools to then resolve
Great thoughts need little structure,
their light too bright to dim
By any academic mode
—that chokes the voice within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)
| Scheme | AA XX BX XX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 1010101 010101 111101 1111010 111111 1100101 110101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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