Analysis of Voices Not Your Own
"Don’t write for Poets,
their knives unclean
With jagged edges,
whose cuts demean
Their opinions frayed,
by wounds unseen
Whose righteous selves,
reflection preens”
Write for those listeners starved and wild,
with hearts not carved of jade
Call out to those aliens of the light,
still trapped within the shade
With words to christen and words unwashed,
no listener disowned
Each verse a prayer at best when sung,
—by voices not your own
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Scheme | AB XB CB XA XC XC XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 1101 1110 1101 10101 1101 1101 0101 111100101 111111 1111100101 110101 111100101 110001 11011111 110111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 485 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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