Analysis of Deliver Me
Wishing It had been different,
I used my last borrowed breath
And made a vow to repent for
each denial
Praying for absolution,
my final hope into the wind
“Damn me if you have to,
but first deliver me from this lie”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111100 111111 01011011 1010 101010 11010101 111111 110101111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 269 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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