Analysis of What They'll Never Escape
People are afraid of what
they can’t understand
themselves most often assured
In the depths of their wandering
a voice cries out
a voice too close to ignore
People will bolt from that thing
that pursues
that thing that augurs to chase
With blinders on tight
and running in vain
—to flee what they’ll never escape
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
Scheme | XXX AXX AXX XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1101 0111001 00111100 0111 0111101 1011111 101 1111011 11011 01001 11111001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 362 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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