Analysis of A Thinking Man
I like to play it smart;
kill them with kindness.
I preferred Athens over Sparta;
the thinking Leonardo Da Vinci over the muscular
Michelangelo.
John Wooden said if you do your best you should win.
But life has its moments.
You have to be prepared for that.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 11110 101101010 010010110100100 010 110111111111 111110 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 257 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Written on January 24, 2022
Submitted on January 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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