Analysis of The Lions Roar
Can you save it in a poem,
as you free the words out loud
Can you write it as a picture,
softly drifting to the clouds
Can you fill the lines with music,
as the verse begins to score
Can you leave a troubled listener,
feeling better—wanting more
Can you deem the time now timeless,
with your message in the wind
Can you find yourself once breathless,
as your ending then begins
Can you defend the sacred question,
for those who came before
Can that poem with its gentle hand,
—release the lions roar
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Scheme | XX AX XB AB CX CX XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110010 1110111 11111010 1010101 11101110 1010111 111010100 1010101 11101110 1110001 11101110 1110101 110101010 111101 111011101 010101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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