Analysis of The Reckoning
The vision intrudes,
stealing ink from my pen
A thief in the night,
leaving words that portend
A warning’s been given,
its mantle thrown down
But truth will write over
—what darkness avows
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | AX XX XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001 101111 01001 101101 010110 11011 111110 1101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 09, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on September 09, 2019
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