Analysis of Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man
What once held me captive,
now sets me free
My wanderlust blowing away
The clouds and horizon,
that buttressed my world
Meld, as the night into day
Those words never chosen,
survive on their own
Verses dry, all wings taking flight
What used to confound me,
present, future, and past
Joined as one—in a fusion of light
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)
| Scheme | XA B CX B CX D AX D X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 1111 1101001 010010 11011 1101011 111010 01111 10111101 111011 101001 111001011 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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