Analysis of Unoriginal Sin
Did you flavor it with Hemingway,
or season it with Thoreau
Did you structure it like Eliot,
or was Melville more your go
The rocks you choose to stand upon,
—just supports to look beyond
As you add your face onto the mountain,
new words inscribed in song
Past voices serve to push you,
to that place you’ve never been
Where your breath may cleanse forever
the stain,
—of unoriginal sin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA XX XX XB XXB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 1101101 111011100 1110111 01111101 1011101 1111110010 110101 1101111 1111101 11111010 01 111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 433 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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