Analysis of Last Words
Can you pray without a doctrine,
can you sing above the choir
Can you cast off earthly burdens,
can you burn without the fire
Can you give, no longer taking,
can you welcome strangers in
Can you love beyond all feeling,
—your last words to then forgive
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA BX BX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 11101010 11111010 11101010 11111010 1110100 11101110 1111101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 291 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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