Analysis of Black Diamond Embrace
Selecting the misery,
crown jewel of my pain
To wear like a necklace,
but serve as a chain
Its dark stone on fire,
all light one’s defaced
Reset in a solitaire,
—black diamond embrace
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | AB XB XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100100 110111 111010 11101 111110 11101 010001 11001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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