Analysis of Still They Call
Some poems are true monuments,
some lower to the ground
Some verse is loaded, stacked, and piled,
some stored away till found
A phrasing here, a meaning there,
now where to put it all
As voices cry within the womb,
—unborn, but still they call
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011100 110101 11110101 110111 01010101 111111 11010101 111111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 281 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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