Analysis of Lies..in Guise
The haughty face of pride
veiled with dithering trust
when a slender pious hymen
betrayed the carnal lust
False dreams of toil
regaled leisurely in sloth
and gluttonous greed indeed
devoured the last of troth
With a damp shroud on virtues
and naïve wisdom of youth
I never felt more lonely
and so far away from truth
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 010111 111001 10101010 010101 1111 0110001 0100101 0100111 1011110 0111011 1101110 0110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 319 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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