Analysis of Half Life
Laboring in obscurity,
years behind the mask
Wandering through the shadows,
questions poorly asked
Looking for one reason,
to leave the past behind
Echo’s howling endlessly
—prophecy reminds
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2020)
Scheme | AX XX XX AX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10000100 10101 100101 10101 101110 110101 1010100 10001 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 227 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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