Analysis of Counting Crows
Sometimes money isn’t enough,
the wheat rejects the chaff
Wealth attained by winnowing gain,
the scarecrow only laughs
Sometimes money isn’t enough,
the numbers rise and fall
Interest accrues¬ as attrition renews
—the richest count forestalled
(Valley Forge: November, 2020)
| Scheme | Ax xx Ax xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110101 010101 1011101 010101 0110101 010101 1001101001 01011 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 275 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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