Analysis of The Sun Will Come Up
The warts are ugly
the wrinkles deep
The flesh now sagging
deprived of sleep
The eyesight failing
the hearing gone
But words still call
—from tomorrow’s song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XA BA BX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 0101 01110 0111 0110 0101 1111 1011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 200 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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