Analysis of Visitation
He walked down the street,
Dressed in his rags.
The scent of liquor
Lingering from his paper bag.
His mind seemed to wonder,
As he stumbled along.
Passing cars starred,
Thinking he doesn't belong.
He didn't hold a sign,
Or beg for any food.
Of corse it wouldn't have mattered,
Because people are generally rude.
He walked into a church;
To the front he sat down.
The members astonished;
You could tell by their frown.
As the choir sang,
He simply closed his eyes.
What happened next,
Was no big surprise.
A man walked up,
And ask him to go.
Today was Christmas,
And he was disrupting the show.
He willing left,
Knocking the dust off his feet.
Staggering down the stairs
And into the street.
Disappearing in the distance,
And no one seemed to care.
Visitations from angels
Catch too many unaware.
Scheme | AXBX BCXC XDXD XEXE XFXF XGXG XAXA XHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (88%) |
Metre | 11101 1011 01110 10011101 111110 111001 1011 1011001 110101 111101 11110110 0110110001 110101 101111 010010 111111 10101 110111 1101 11101 0111 01111 01110 01101001 1101 1001111 100101 00101 0100010 011111 010110 111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on August 22, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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