Analysis of My Faith Will Move On
My cupboard’s a mess,
my sink filled with lye
My stables now empty,
my well has gone dry
My pastures are fallow,
my timber all burned
My streams have been fished out,
and what have I learned
The cupboard can be restocked,
the sink can be cleaned
A new well can be dug,
a new colt can be weaned
As the saplings are planted,
new roe will then spawn
All these troubles will pass,
—and my faith will move on
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XC XC XD XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 11111 110110 11111 11011 11011 111111 01111 0101101 01111 011111 011111 1010110 11111 111011 011111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 444 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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