Analysis of Escaping Into Verse



Escaping into verse,
the base of the tower rumbled
the ground beneath was shaken
with new cracks within its walls

Escaping into verse,
all towering deception crumbled
as the self-appointed jumped and fell
landing prostrate, and so small

Escaping into verse,
the mime shouted out enabled
his silent thunder, raining down
with a message now to scald

Escaping into verse,
a new steeple built and stabled
its bell now ringing a lyric toll,
--- death knell to those recalled

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme Abxx Abxx Abxc Abxc x
Poetic Form
Metre 010011 01101010 0101110 1110111 010011 110001010 101010101 1010011 010011 01101010 11010101 1010111 010011 0110101 111100101 111101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 492
Words 83
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 25, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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