Analysis of Nightingale
Kathy A. Wittman 1949 (Tennessee)
The essence of your soul was captured that day
as you rested regally in your wheelchair,
singing praises to your King
amidst the tumultuous babble of your captive audience:
frail people, broken in their bodies, minds, and spirits,
vacantly staring far beyond their dismal, mundane prisons.
Momentarily we transcended Earth's boundaries
as we watched your spirit soar to heights unknown.
We caught a glimpse of Heaven in your ebony eyes,
glistening with joyous anticipation of your deliverance.
While I listened to your sweet, mellow alto voice,
I heard you proclaim the depths of birth, death, and rebirth
rendered by familiar, almost-forgotten spirituals of long ago,
and I knowingly smiled at the thought of your secret rapture.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011111011 1110100011 1010111 010100101110100 1101001101010 1101011100110 010010101100 11111011101 1101110011001 1001100010110100 111011110101 1110101111001 101010101010001101 011001101111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 717 |
| Words | 116 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 298 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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