Analysis of A Mutilated Oneness
Visionary’s promise,
what’s never seen
Believers die invested,
in lives that wait
Junctions of immunity,
and sweeter air
A mutilated oneness,
—we call the truth
(West Philadelphia: January, 1973)
| Scheme | AX XX BX AX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 0101 0101010 0111 110100 0101 010010 1101 10100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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