Analysis of To No Avail
Is a lie in its intention,
or its desired end result
Is deception ever lessened,
if the harm is never felt
Can you skate by blame or judgment,
if your evil plans then fail
Or are you even more at fault
—when you lie to no avail
(St. Davids Pennsylvania: June, 2019)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 11010101 10101010 1011101 11111110 1110111 11110111 1111101 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 260 |
Words | 52 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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