Analysis of Wisdom's Tree
Fruitions seed is larger still,
get out your watering can
Fifty past one hundred years,
to shade what light began
Wisdom’s tree the hardest wood,
millennium to rise
Truth ingrained, its bark unstained
—transcendence once denied
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 1111001 1011101 111101 110101 010011 1011101 010101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 08, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 08, 2020
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