Analysis of Father To The Man
You can’t play with something you don’t own,” said
the father. “But father, that is the truest definition
of play,” said the Russian boy. “What is not owned is
not worried about, and what is not worried about sets
you free.”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101111 01011011010010 111010111111 11001011110011 11 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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