Analysis of The Veil
The future calls our name just once,
hello awaits goodbye
The past a veil to what’s been learned
—the truth wrapped in a lie
(H.U.P. May, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 010110111 01011 01011011 011001 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 143 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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