Analysis of Meta Chrysalis
To become what you look at,
to say what you know
Your eyes to retract,
your wisdom to grow
To live by a credo,
to die only once
Your soul to take flight
—your spirit to hunt
(Martha Browns Woods: March, 2021)
| Scheme | XA XA AX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 11111 11101 11011 111010 11101 11111 11011 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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