Analysis of The Coming Dawn
Freedom lives outside the gate
of all convention
Choosing its own direction
by the broken rule
Captured in the magic
of this very moment
Living inside the promise
—of the coming dawn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2017)
| Scheme | XA AX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 11010 1011010 10101 100010 111010 1001010 10101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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