Analysis of Lightning Proclaimed
To be quiet with your friends
and silent with your foes
Creates a thunderous quiescence
which envelopes your soul
Your enemy weakening
as truth starts to rain
His darkness expelled
—by lightning proclaimed
(Train From Virginia: April, 2015)
| Scheme | AX AX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 010111 0101001 11011 1100100 11111 11001 11001 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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