Analysis of Shepherd's Watch



A voice for the voiceless
whose cry still unheard
Alone in the womb
but blessed by the Word

Defending the helpless
as murderers loom
Divinity watching
— a reckoning soon

(The New Room: April, 2024)


Scheme ABCB ACXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 011010 11101 01001 11101 010010 11001 010010 01001 01110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 202
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 28, 2024

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