Analysis of As Answers Flee
Is the Poetry in the thinking
or the writing
Is the message in the reading
or the hearing
Is the feeling trapped between
what’s spoken and the silence
Is the spirit released as answers flee
—from questions yet to ask
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
| Scheme | AA AA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101000010 1010 10100010 1010 1010101 0100010 1010011101 110111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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