Analysis of Surrendering To The Muse
Putting up the white flag,
laying down my gun
Turning my back on fantasy,
projects left undone
Unlike other enemies,
she’s neither front nor back
But lives where only she can go,
where color turns to black
Her voice becomes a mimic,
ventriloquist of my soul
As words come uninvited,
their letters rhyming whole
Resistance now is futile,
my nights pass sleep deprived
Mercy vacant, her voice my own
—all victory denied
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XC XC XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011 10111 10111100 10101 0110100 110111 11110111 110111 0101010 1111 111010 110101 0101110 111101 10100111 110001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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