Analysis of Those Things...
To doubt what you doubt,
but know what you know
The difference inherent,
its fire aglow
To wish what you wish for,
but feel what you feel
Knowing and feeling
—those things that are real
(Villanova University: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11111 0100010 11001 111111 11111 10010 11111 0100100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 39 |
| 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) | 8 |
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