Analysis of Salvation Divine
This poem to be read
at the end of my life
When I bid you adieu
from the joy and the strife
A verse filled with hope
and with love from within
To carry inside,
my song on the wind
I’ll try not to preach,
as others have done
But rather beseech you,
to strive twice begun
To love with the strength
that’s God given inside
Then to love even more,
in an unending rhyme
These words are my gift,
I bequeath you today
In the hope you’ll remember
what I last had to say
For I loved you all deeply,
your kindness I sought
And the memories sweetly,
those lessons you taught
So I leave you this morning,
and bid you farewell
I leave you together,
bonded hearts then to dwell
All strength in your sharing,
my love to remind
Your redemption awaits,
—salvation divine
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
Scheme | XA BA XX CD XE BE XC XX XF GF HI HI JK GK JD XX G |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 101111 111101 101001 01111 011101 11001 11101 11111 11011 110011 11101 11101 111001 111101 010101 11111 101101 0011010 111111 1111110 11011 0010010 11011 1111110 0111 111010 101111 110110 11101 101001 01001 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 807 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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