Analysis of Verba Artis
Words are like paint
your voice is the brush
The image though spoken
both vivid and lush
Each page but a portrait
your canvas when bound
Today and tomorrow
—eternity’s sound
(The New Room: August, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 11101 010110 11001 111010 11011 01001 11 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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