Analysis of Welcoming Hymn
The spare bedroom of life,
is where I sleep now
The other rooms taken,
the past dreaming proud
This cot that I lie on,
one sheet to keep warm
With furniture missing,
and curtains all torn
The end of the season,
the end of the hall
Forgetting the reasons,
my memory now small
As both eyes shut tightly,
my vision within
A palace awating,
—a welcoming hymn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
Scheme | XX AX XX BX AC XC XX BX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 11111 010110 01101 111111 11111 110010 01011 011010 01101 010010 110011 111110 11001 0101 01001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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