Analysis of Call To Heaven
Poetry’s sacred
prose not so much
One to be read
the other to touch
The verse spoken freely
in a nighttime array
Phrases more conjured
to outlive the day
The medicinal magic
that hides in each line
Lifts my body to flight
in a nocturnal climb
The prose gets pounded
and pounded again
And its linear sense
I find hard to befriend
As twilight appears
from the corner of my eye
The couplets on fire
I look to the sky
With my very last breath
not taken in vain
It’s with meter and rhyme
—I call to heaven again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB XX XC XD XX XE XE XX CD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
| Metre | 110 1111 1111 01011 011010 00101 10110 1101 0010010 11011 111011 000101 01110 01001 011001 111101 1101 1010111 01110 11101 111011 11001 111001 1111001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 549 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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