Analysis of Commanders In Chief And Regular Plebeians



Holding resolutely
to
thematic motif
and
stubbornly unyielding
on
untested belief
is
simply pertinacious
and
cause of constant grief
for
regular plebeians
and
commanders in chief.


Scheme abcDefcggDchiDc
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 10100 1 01001 0 100010 1 01001 1 101 0 11101 1 100010 0 01001
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 165
Words 26
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 10
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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