Analysis of Beauty Fraught
I was a soldier, but never sure
of those things I was
charged to do
I was asked to fight
pick up helmet and gun
men dying around me I knew
Those places I’ve been
and the things I’ve done
all eclipse the known profane
Now with beauty fraught
you must lock the gate
—inside this prison I remain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XXA XBA XBC XXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101101 11111 111 11111 111001 11001111 11011 00111 1010101 11101 11101 01110101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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