Analysis of But Winners & Losers
I have no regard
for other poets
how could it be other
As they conscript
the words away
of which I’ve not discovered
A battle royal
zero sum
as phrases block and parry
The winner left
his voice reclaimed
— the loser most disparaged
(The New Room: February, 2024)
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXA XXX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 11010 111110 111 0101 1111010 01010 101 1101010 0101 1101 0101010 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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