Analysis of Never Destitute
In the darkest final hours,
I began to write
And my words now spoken new,
from scattered ashes light the sky
To begin and end each day
caught up in beauty’s distant wake
All loneliness filled by pages lined
with happiness and joy
My fate betrothed, once mistress
scorned,
—a lover more than wife
Whose vision so much sharper,
her dissection cuts through bone
To slay the muted dragons fire
in present elocution
Beyond all past and future clouds,
above the darkening storm
And to live each breath and die each word,
that heaven sends pristine
Never destitute in blessings shown,
—or in things I wish I’d said
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX XXX AB AX XX XX BX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101010 10111 0111101 11010101 1010111 1101101 110011101 110001 111110 1 010111 1101110 0010111 110101010 010010 01110101 0101001 011110111 110110 10100101 1011111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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