Analysis of Herein & Hereafter
Politics governs our
temporal lives
Religion conscripting
eternity’s prize
Together they’ve killed
more than famine and war
A plague that still haunts us
—to shun and deplore
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2020)
| Scheme | AX XX XB XB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 1001 0101 11 01011 111001 011111 11001 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 213 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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