Analysis of Heads Wins Again
“In God We Trust”
the dollar we must
Two-headed coin,
minted unjust
“Fides in Deum,”
our fortunes to blame
The past purloined
—the future inflamed
(The New Room: March, 2021)
| Scheme | AA XA BB XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 01011 1101 1001 101 101011 0101 01001 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 177 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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