Analysis of On Bended Knee
Liking what things are supposed to be
instead of what they are
I spend my life in wondered lust
not near, yet so afar
Wishing the truth not what it was
but what it was meant to be
I spend my nights in wish filled dreams
—my faith on bended knee
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)
| Scheme | AB XB XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110111 011111 11110101 111101 10011111 1111111 11110111 111101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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