Analysis of In Debt To The Devil
Money buys
freedom
when blood’s
overdrawn
Reality’s
greed
destiny
pawns
Money buys
freedom
its truth
to bemoan
Dignity
truant
the future
— on loan
(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)
| Scheme | ABxxaxcx ABxdcxxd c |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 10 11 101 1 1 100 1 101 10 11 101 100 10 010 11 1100 |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 8 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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