Analysis of Resolve To Be
Resolve to be:
Tender with the young;
Compassionate with the aging;
Sympathetic with the striving;
Tolerant of the weak;
And empathetic with the wrong;
Because sometime in your life,
You will have been
All of these.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 0111 10101 01001010 0101010 100101 0010101 011011 1111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 512 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on October 08, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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