Analysis of Reaching Out
If I could be of simple mind
and simple faith
And hold your love within my heart
for just an hour
On bended knees my arms would raise
toward heaven’s gate
Like petals reaching out,
--- from a morning flower
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 0101 01110111 11110 11011111 01101 110101 101010 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 247 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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