Analysis of Their Peace Like A Blanket
To my home, the words take me
each calling by name
Tearing walls from around me
passion free, unrestrained
Their visions at midnight
have lulled me to sleep
Their message when troubled
my nightmare to greet
Through the long and the short
it’s the words once again
Like the tide on the shore,
they return as a friend
And lately I’m hearing
an echoed refrain
From verses long distant
offloading my pain
These words that I hear
more whisper than shout
And what I once questioned,
I no longer doubt
Through my voice they’re respoken
to shield me from harm
Their peace like a blanket
—under which I am warm
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
| Scheme | AX AX XX XX XB XX XC XC XD XD BX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (32%) |
| Metre | 1110111 11011 1011011 10101 11011 11111 110110 1111 101001 101101 101101 101101 010110 11001 110110 111 11111 11011 011110 11101 11111 11111 111010 101111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 650 |
| Words | 114 |
| 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) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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