Analysis of The Dragon's Fire
The Democrat party,
all masters and slaves
G.O.P. left in tatters,
their promises frayed
Haves lie to the have nots
bright futures a whim
As the dragon’s fire burns
—the thick with the thin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2016)
Scheme | AX XX XX XX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010 11001 11010 11001 111011 11001 1010101 01101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 233 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 4 |
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) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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