Analysis of Gabriel's Horn



A captive of your ontology,
  a tiger in a cage

Doomed to look with borrowed eyes,
  your life played out on stage

You pace the floor incessant,
  as anger builds within

And hear the distance calling,
  feeling trapped, an alien

Will that trumpet ever reach you,
  by whose Archangel you’re reborn

Will redemption come to free you,
 —if Saint Gabriel blows his horn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)


Scheme XA XA XX XX BC BC X
Poetic Form
Metre 010110100 010001 111111 111111 1101010 110101 0101010 1011100 11101011 1110111 10101111 11100111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 395
Words 67
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 45
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 16, 2017

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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