Analysis of The Incarcerated Word
What was created to expose,
now a fortress meant to hide
Bastions of higher learning,
masking havens safe for lies
Where discourse once was treasured,
the ivy droops and sighs
With comfort their true measure,
the dilettantes all cry
Plato is disgusted,
John Locke is more than riled
As a millennium of learning
is mocked in false denial
Students weak and wounded,
from those lessons never learned
Their tomorrow’s but a doomsday,
their futures sure to burn
Those words were there to save them,
both the hated and revered
All truth in dialectics
—left abandoned by their fear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2016)
Scheme | AX BC XC XX DX BX DX XX XX AX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 1010111 1011010 1010111 1101110 010101 1101110 0111 101010 111111 100100110 1101010 101010 1110101 101101 110111 1101111 1010001 1101 1010111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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