Analysis of A Wish Undeclared
Is Poetics
a poem or a process
Is Love
a lover or romance
Is Art
a painting or a vision
Is Worship
a place or deliverance
Is Freedom
a word or a statement
Is Family
just blood that we share
Is Duty
an oath or vocation
Is Truth
just a wish—undeclared
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | AA XA XB XA XX CX CB XX C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 010101 11 010101 11 0101010 110 0110100 110 011010 1100 11111 110 111010 11 101001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 293 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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