Analysis of Shells of Faith
Once songs of praise fill'd these shrines of glory
Crumbling cathedrals brother sun peeks his roving eye
Shadows trace the footsteps of Christian Monks
Whose chanting voices echo'd
Now where only memories lie
Sister moon with thy pale white smile
Bathe the ruins shaped by the dust of time
Light the stairs of medieval stones forgotten
Tread by brothers when the bells in the abby chimed
Greyish skeletons of bricks and mortar
Relics shrouded by the mist of dusk and dawn
Guardians whose walls still inspire awe
Though their choral masters have come and gone
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111110 10001010111101 11011101 1101010 11101001 10111111 1010110111 10110101010 111010100101 110011010 10101011101 100111011 1110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on March 02, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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