Analysis of The Voice Of An Age
Poetry is different
when spoken than read
The words more musical
outside my head
No longer imprisoned
or held on the page
Their freedom unharnessed
—the voice of an age
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | AB CB XD AD C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001100 11011 011100 1111 110010 11101 1101 01111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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