Analysis of archaic
shields..embossed..devices ..depicted
a dark knight
a lightening bolt bissecting a blue circle
they clashed.. the dark knight flew..uppended.. arms and feet waving like a steel beetle
chainmail shredded by a delving blade
hades opened her doors...fire and brimstone...the knight was home
above in the blue dome a huge crack forked
Scheme | XXA AX X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 011 0100110110 1101111011010110 11010101 10100101111 0100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 324 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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