Analysis of Turning Darkness To Light
With a new honesty,
I began to write
As the fog was cleared,
liberating my sight
From lies and confusion,
the wrongs became right
My days now lengthened,
—turning darkness to light
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101100 10111 10111 10011 110010 01011 11110 101011 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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