Analysis of Minor Plus Est
Happy is he
who is content with the least
Whose hunger is sated
in famine he feasts
Happy is he
who begins at the end
And ends at the beginning
—his fortune to bend
(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)
| Scheme | Axxx Abxb x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 1110101 110110 01011 1011 101101 0110010 11011 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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