Analysis of The Eighth Gone Astray
Seven dark prodigals approached in the night,
saying: “One has escaped and
journeyed into the light”
Seven dark prodigals with shadows now gone,
longed for he who had left them,
—for he who was strong
Seven dark prodigals wandered the dark,
no safety in numbers,
in search of their heart
“We must look till he’s found,” I heard two of them say,
seven sins unforgiven,
—the eighth gone astray
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
Scheme | AXA XXX XXX BXB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101001 1011010 100101 10111111 1111111 11111 10111001 110010 01111 111111111111 101010 01101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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