Analysis of 80 / 20
I could write a sonnet
or maybe a play
I could have gone epic
in hopes to relay
What snippets say better
in stations of rhyme
And carry within them
—a power sublime
(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXAXBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 11001 111110 0111 110110 01011 010011 01001 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 196 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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