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
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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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 03, 2017

Modified on March 11, 2023

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