Analysis of Redemption Near
Did you waste your life
just making money
Did you eat the bread
and not the honey
Did you sell your soul
as your children watched
Was your heart left cold
in a tinderbox
Were your excuses rich
and your reasons poor
Did you wake up full
and still ask for more
Were your blessings shunned
as you scratched and clawed
Saying no harm done
“I never broke the law”
Were you teeth all straightened
and your motives bent
Were your eyes detached
from what heaven sent
Were your memories lost
in some dead refrain
As a lonely footnote
to another’s name
If you had one chance
to re-right these wrongs
Would you hide in silence
or break out in song
With your soul imprisoned
the choice is clear
All joy awaits
—redemption near
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Scheme | XA XA XX XX XX XX BX XX BC XC XX XX XX XX BD XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 11010 11101 01010 11111 11101 11111 0010 010101 01101 11111 01111 01101 11101 10111 110101 011110 01101 01101 11101 011001 01101 10101 111 11111 11111 111010 11101 111010 0111 1101 0101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 758 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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