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 |
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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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