Analysis of What Souls Hope To Find
An abundance of denial,
your mind turns away
What spirit embraces,
choice hides and delays
“The dignity of the old man
in worn tattered clothes
Frayed pants covering high
button shoes—but not toes
He wanders among us,
just over the line
As eyes fail to see,
what souls hope to find”
An elegance to rival
your white tie and tails
Where life now stripped free
of false richness—prevails
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | AXXX XXXX XXBX ACBC B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101010 11101 110010 11001 01001011 01101 111001 101111 110011 11001 11111 11111 1100110 11101 11111 111001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 513 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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