Analysis of Lights Prisoner
Lay your feelings out there,
put them on the line
Send your fear back down to hell,
forever to remind
Evil in submission,
darkness wrapped in fright
The devil muted with your words
—prisoner of the light
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 11101 1111111 010101 100010 10101 01010111 100101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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