Analysis of His Destiny Wed
In the song of the antelope,
the Prince heard his Queen
Now locked in a convent,
her beauty unseen
The tower still distant,
its ramparts on guard
Just one point of entry
a hero’s reward
The mist in the valley
her prison unseen
Through clouds in the distance
her pleadings, her screams
The miles before him
twin antlers ahead
His future unfolding
—his destiny wed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Scheme | XA BA BX CX CA XX XD XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0011010 01111 110010 01001 010110 1111 111110 01001 010010 01001 110010 01001 01011 11001 110010 11001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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