Analysis of The Feast
Thoughts carried to term,
new words to instill
A message is born,
an infant of will
Its father coarse logic,
its mother the wind
Together they coupled,
a marriage within
Their family heraldic,
with pedigree firm
As libraries tremble,
and sages relearn
All time on the table,
last lie from the beast
This moment a knife,
past—future the feast
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)
| Scheme | AB XB CX XX CA DX DE XE X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 11101 01011 11011 110110 11001 010110 01001 1100010 11001 11010 01001 111010 11101 11001 11001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 380 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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