Analysis of Headlines
The news hit the headlines,
the story of the year,
the time to remember,
the truth that made it clear,
the great revelation,
the ultimate surprise,
the crested pinnacle,
the truth absent disguise,
the absolute version,
the conclusive event,
the grandest finale,
the truth in rare consent:
"Nothing real is threatened."
"The truth always persists."
"Spirits live forever."
"Nothing unreal exists."
| Scheme | XABA CDXD CEXE XFBF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01101 010101 011010 011111 01010 010001 010100 011001 01010 001001 010010 010101 101110 01101 101010 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 381 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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