Analysis of To Dance With The Muse
Hopes and wishes step aside,
as new words cut in to dance
Painting the floor red
in lettered steps of eternity
Partners now consonant
a song of celebration
Whose lyrics waltz inward
—in patterns of remembrance
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 1111011 10011 010110100 101100 011010 110110 0101010 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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