Analysis of Retrospection Lesson 2: "Trust"



Give me your trust, lend me your hand
I'll pick up your life's hourglass and every grain of sand
I am your best friend, I am your best man
Let our friendship prosper, our lives shall be grand

By: ©William J Dorsey Jr. (Copyright) October 23, 2013


Scheme AAXA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11111111 11111100100111 1111111111 1101010101111 110110110010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 244
Words 47
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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