Analysis of The Line
Conduit of the human spirit
I forced hope into the cord
Draining the tears of
The lost and abandoned
Plugging into outlets
Of forgotten promise
Forcing their light
Onto the dark barren screen
Charging into what
I had charged over before
—crossing the line
—crossing the line
(Villanova Post Office: January, 2015)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101010 1110101 10011 010010 10011 101010 1011 1001101 10011 1111001 1001 1001 010110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 310 |
Words | 52 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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