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)
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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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