Analysis of High In The Tower



Politics and war
twin pillars of conflict
“Charge into weakness
retreat if there’s strength”  

High in the tower
dividing to conquer
Fate looking down
— as your destiny waits

(The New Room: February, 2024)


Scheme XXXX AAXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 110110 10110 01111 10010 010110 1101 111001 011100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 217
Words 38
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 17, 2024

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