Analysis of How Close A Cousin
How close a cousin
is Freud's Need to Confess
to a milk-painful bosom
that needs to express,
that needs to be truly known?
| Scheme | X A X A X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11010 111101 1011010 11101 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 118 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 19 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted on October 22, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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