Analysis of Epiphany
-This rain! It’s a warning.
-Armageddon’s coming and I’ve got the Sahara,
in bags, at my door.
From beyond the darkness a lone voice crying,
saline sound, song of the sea.
In gentle stone, the dead lie listening
(lest we forget)
to the 5p martyrs’ whisper.
Upright in eternal attrition,
their passion flames.
Points of light mouth the darkness,
for they joust pure annihilation;
and the silence leans, communing, closer,
(let us proclaim the mystery of faith)
in tender embrace.
Now the winter tide is turning,
turn out again to the gull-strewn air.
Scheme | AXX AXAXBCXXCBXXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 1100110010 01111 10101001110 0111101 0101011100 1101 1011010 010010010 1101 1111010 11110010 0010101010 1101010011 01001 10101110 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 542 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 14 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 213 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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