Analysis of Shaken Or Stirred
Easier to run the risk of death
than ridicule damned
Easier to face an army of men
than a single man
Easier to write a thousand lines
than only one
Easier to quote the wisest sage
—than self become
(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100110111 1101 1001111011 10101 100110101 1101 100110101 1101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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