Analysis of Slave To Light
There’s a level above choice
where the answers are clear
The options there vanish
yes or no disappears
Beyond wishing and hoping
something less—something more
All time but a servant
—slave to light evermore
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010011 101011 010110 11101 0110010 101101 111010 11110 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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