Analysis of Patchwork Of Tailors
A stitching of parables,
a weaving of psalms
Whether ancient or modern,
the truth plaited long
The story we tell,
with one pattern beset
A patchwork of tailors
—whose needles profess
(Villanova Pennsylvania, December, 2019)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100 01011 1010110 01101 01011 111001 01110 11001 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 217 |
Words | 35 |
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) | 7 |
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