Analysis of The Most Convenient Truth
Where you stand tomorrow,
based on where you sit today
Your principles determined
by what you get
The ground below you moving,
feet shuffling back and forth
Saying this and saying that
—remembering to forget
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1111101 1100010 1111 0101110 110101 1010101 0100101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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