Analysis of Oil & Water
Yes or no,
right or wrong,
their truth so far apart
Opinion
versus stated fact,
polarized and stark
To give
or sway conjecture,
in light of what is known
Weakness
in consensus lost
— black and white has shown
(Philadelphia Ethical Society: September, 2020)
Scheme | XXX XXX XAB XXB A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 111 111101 010 10101 1001 11 11010 011111 10 00101 10111 01001000100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 246 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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