Analysis of Life Debt
Julian Jaynes 1996 (Elizabethton)
A glowing warmth
A growing cold
A joyful youth
A man grown old
A winter’s night
A summer breeze
A violent birth
A death at ease
A memory gained
A family lost
This is our tax
Our final cost
| Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 0101 0101 0111 0101 0101 01001 0111 01001 01001 11101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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