Analysis of Nostrae Vicaria



The music
called the dancers
to the floor

The poet
waltzing freely
—with his eyes

(Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania: March, 1980)


Scheme XXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 010 1010 101 010 1010 111 1100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 118
Words 20
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 28, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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