Analysis of Dark Ransom
Hope trumped last
a prisoner of death
A final capitulation
—devil’s ransom beset
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 111 010011 0100010 101001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 121 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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