Analysis of Transcendental Lullaby
I’ve now started to dream
while being awake
Sleep no longer needed
to open the gate
The visions come clearly
the music I hear
My mind surrenders
looking back on the years
I’m fully aware
but entranced when they come
The words of my Fathers…
the beat of a drum
My eyes partly close
as the chanting begins
My spirit reclaimed
—from the darkness within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)
| Scheme | XX XX XX AX XB AB XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 11001 111010 11001 010110 01011 11010 101101 11001 101111 011110 01101 11101 101001 11001 101001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 396 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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