Analysis of Only My Words
I’m covered in dirt,
but my words are still clean
A vision half dried
with stains running deep
With sinners and saints
arm in arm at the bar
Each infection we share
tonight’s hookup and score
Meaningless excuses
all scandal affirmed
My bed made with sheets
from a brothel once scorned
As I lie in the shadows
with my soul partly damp
My words are set free
—to the heavens restamped
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | AX XX XX XX XX XX XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001 111111 01011 11101 11001 101101 101011 1101 100010 11001 11111 101011 111001 111101 11111 10101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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