Analysis of A Spirit Pure
It hurt so much it robbed her soul,
and drove her cross the line
The men she knew, the men she loved,
the pain thought once sublime
The last man in, the last man out,
now done with men for good
Her passion torn, her body raped,
a woman she now took
She lived her life on foreign lands,
with mirrors that denounce
She washed the staining from her hands,
returning count for count
And when she died the parson said,
upon this somber day
“A spirit pure but torn in half
—the best part cast away”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX AX AX XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 010101 01110111 011101 01100111 111111 01010101 010111 11011101 110101 11010101 010111 01110101 011101 01011101 011101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 10, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 10, 2020
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