Analysis of Spirit Wings
If you live long enough…
those things you missed
will again return
No longer wrapped
in layers of disguise
But flying on spirit wings
the Archangels have endowed
Bequeathed
to the morning’s sunrise
—your exiting dawn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
Scheme | XXX XA XX XAX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1111 10101 1101 010101 1101101 010101 01 10101 11001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 250 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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