Analysis of Praying For Light
Always the mistress,
never the wife
Dessert that comes last,
motel in sight
Acting the courtesan,
children denied
Life in the shadows,
love that must hide
Everything borrowed,
everything loaned
Feelings on time-share,
never to own
Always a mistress,
never a wife
Married to darkness,
—praying for light
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | AB XC DE XE XX XD AB AC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 1001 01111 0101 1001 1001 1001 1111 101 101 10111 1011 1010 1001 10110 1011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 343 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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