Analysis of Depreciating The Young
Grammar school speculators
charlatan math
trading the currency
of borrowed youth
optioning the investment
in forsaken dreams
hedging their futures
with diminished returns
margining interest
—that will never compound
(Radnor School Board: February, 2021)
| Scheme | AXBXXXAXXX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101100 1001 100100 111 1000010 00101 10110 101001 10010 111010 1011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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