Analysis of Blissful Ignorance
Before I knew the answers
life was one big question
Wonder hid round every turn
laughter as my Muse
As answers came the questions left
each day like that before
Laughter but an echoed wish
wonder lost — unfound
(Villanova University: April, 2024)
| Scheme | XXXX AXXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111010 111110 10111001 10111 11010101 111101 1011101 1011 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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