Analysis of From Heaven Bought
A prisoner of devotion,
a Saint indentured pure
The light now holds him captive,
on knees bent to the floor
His silence for a jailer,
his sentence now unlocked
With handcuffs loose and falling
—their key from heaven bought
(Las Vegas Nevada: January, 2017)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001010 010101 0111110 111101 1101010 110101 111010 111101 110010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 252 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 23, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on July 01, 2019
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