Analysis of A lesson taught



A lesson taught

Teach us to be human beings once again
teach us to care  and  be humane
if such things could make us sane

Images awake the soul of man
and a world begins to heal  
through winds that blow
through hearts despair
between the limbs of twisted steel

Moonlight drips through
  the silent cracking walls
made of grief and pain  

Daylight wakes the stubborn heart
filled with things it wants to keep

Creates the space within
a centered core of groundness
that builds foundations needed

The calm within the storm
a pillar that holds
the compass straight
a place where home is made
gathered in a great circle  
arms stretched out with open hands  
to all those who greet them


Scheme X XAA XBXXB XCA XX XCX XXXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 11111010101 11110101 1111111 100010111 0010111 1111 1101 01011101 111 010101 11101 110101 1111111 010101 010111 1101010 010101 01011 0101 011111 1000110 1111101 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 694
Words 133
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 5, 3, 2, 3, 7
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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