Analysis of The Trap
When your mind
is free
How can you trap it
with alternatives
(Strafford Pennsylvania: September, 1976)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys |
| Metre | 111 11 11111 10100 1010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 104 |
| Words | 16 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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