Analysis of The Devil Left Crying
Like the hub of a wheel
reality turns
Each spoke a religion
a doctrine that churns
Christians and Buddhists
spread out to the rim
Jews and then Muslims
attached deep within
The wheel turns in circles
as spokes never touch
Each message turns blindly
to act as a crutch
Until craters dismantle
….the wheel breaking free
To sink in exclusion
all truth to be seen
Spokes pile and mix
lying dead on the ground
The devil left crying
—salvation unbound
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
| Scheme | XA BA XX XX XC DC ED BX XF XF E |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 101 110010 01011 10010 11101 10110 01101 011010 11101 110110 11101 0110010 01101 110010 11111 1101 101101 010110 01001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 490 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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