Analysis of Last Road To Rome
Poetry fails
when forced to explain
A dead-end street
with little to gain
Stripped of meaning,
one proffer to name
Magic and wonder
dead,
self-proclaimed
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1001 11101 0111 11011 1110 11011 10010 1 101 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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