Analysis of Viventem Et Mori



Living right,
death of no concern

Dying right
—life begins again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme AX AX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Metre 101 11101 101 10101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 103
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 28
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 15, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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