Analysis of Truant Verse
Finding fault
with a vagrant poem,
its message left unclear
Falling short,
while aiming long,
to harken every ear
What’s left unsaid,
an unmade bed,
the sheets pulled down and bare
The words still truant,
their search goes on
—whose message all to share
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)
Scheme | XXX XXX AAB XXB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 101010 110101 101 1101 1101001 0101 1011 011101 01110 1111 110111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 287 |
Words | 48 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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