Analysis of The Island & The Cloud
Between freedom and Instagram
there is an island,
where men go to be alone
An island of words
in arresting colors,
with meaning indicted—but seldom heard
Between Facebook and tomorrow
a cloud sits waiting,
where men go to find themselves
An Angel calling role
in blind acceptance,
all names rejected—the letters whole
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXX AXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011001 11110 1111101 11011 001010 1100101101 011001 01110 1111101 110101 01010 110100101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 366 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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