Analysis of All The King's Horses
Logic destroys the natural state,
as order rules the day
To tag and label, weigh and chart,
reality at bay
A poet in the truest sense,
I fall outside the lines
Entropic freedom calling me
—to all that I might find
(Rosemont College: August, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100101001 110101 11010101 1011 01000101 111101 110101 111111 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 28, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 28, 2020
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