Analysis of But
Either I’m right
and you’re wrong
Or you’re right
and I’m wrong
Or we’re both wrong
—but we both can’t be right
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: October, 2020)
| Scheme | ABABBA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 011 111 011 1011 111111 110010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 163 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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