Analysis of The 8th Year
In confessionals of doubt
he chased absolution
The devil unmasked
—his penance forsworn
(Washington Chapel: November, 2021)
Scheme | XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010011 11010 01001 1101 10010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 130 |
Words | 20 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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