Analysis of Old Souls
Old souls know about money,
and run from it more than the rest
They’ve witnessed the toll it exacts,
they’ve witnessed the joy it rejects
An old soul lives on a shoestring,
tied to something that money can’t buy
An old soul is not bought so cheaply
—as that new soul that’s never flown high
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)
| Scheme | AX XX XB AB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110 01111101 11001101 11001101 1111101 111011011 111111110 111111011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 332 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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