Analysis of Spoken Free
Flying off the written page,
words leave their script behind
An inked stained palette of regret,
dark figures to remind
Voices soaring up and up,
released in open air
Imprisoned verses spoken free
—eternity to share
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB CB C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 111101 11110101 110101 1010101 010101 01010101 010011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 01, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 01, 2020
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