Analysis of Sold Unborn
Give me back my kidnapped youth,
distiller of the night
Return the sun from whence it’s gone,
expose this darkened fright
Give me back the future-past,
all memory on the run
Return those days once sold unborn
—to where my joy has gone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2020)
| Scheme | XA BA XX XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 010101 01011111 011101 1110101 1100101 01111111 111111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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