Analysis of Vicarious Encounters



Vicarious Encounters
afford insightful gain
You don't have to have cancer to analyze the pain

Vicarious Encounters
afford empathic touch
You don't have to have merit to scrutinize nonesuch

Vicarious Encounters
afford sensate motion
You don't have to have riptide to explore the ocean

Vicarious Encounters
afford substitute feats
You don't have to have success to investigate treats

Vicarious Encounters
afford imagined mirth
You don't have to have rapture to examine the earth

Vicarious Encounters
afford deputed grace
You don't have to have polish to audit outer space


Scheme Abb Acc Add Aee Aff Agg
Poetic Form
Metre 0100010 01101 111111011001 0100010 0111 111111011011 0100010 01110 111111101010 0100010 01101 111110110101 0100010 010101 1111110101001 0100010 0111 1111110110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 552
Words 88
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on April 07, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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