Analysis of Bribing The Devil
Leaving nothing to his children but cowardly shame,
his back turned toward the light
His memory the captor of a traitorous scheme,
capitulating through the fight
His legacy broken, his endowment recalled,
his reputation scorched and burned
Offering to the Devil his original sin
—with redemption twice suborned
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111011001 1110101 1100010101001 1101 110010101001 1010101 1001010101001 101011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 349 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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