Analysis of Your Spirit To Claim
The words in the melody
the words on the page
Related but different
the Minstrel and Sage
The music recaptures
what ink only starts
As harmony sings
from an angelic heart
A phrase and a lyric
as cousins relate
Too distant for brothers
too close in their fate
One soul with two masters
each fighting to gain
Your soul ever after
—your spirit to claim
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA BB BX XC BC BX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100100 01101 0101100 01001 0101 11101 11001 11101 010010 11001 110110 11011 111110 11011 111010 11011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 387 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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