Analysis of Blood Oath
The knife edge of verse…
a verbal incision,
whose sharpness cuts both ways
Its blood groove runs heavy
with truth dripping free
—to mark the words unsaid
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)
| Scheme | XXX AAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111 010010 110111 111110 11101 110101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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