Analysis of Ordained
“The lunatic, the lover, the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
(Shakespeare)
The lunatic a sorcerer
enchants her own mind
‘twixt reality and dream
confutes the line
Love marks a heaven
on her lover’s brow
the calculus of Reason
nimbly beguiled
Golden the orbs
of crystalline glass
unlocking cosmic radiance
setting fire the fancy
of a poet’s staff
from Infinity
she pours a draught
seizing the elixir
to paint a poem
drawing nothingness
into form
Twining the three
a silken thread
stringing the bow
that bends toward the sun
her arrows
to pierce the vein
where madness and vision
their courses run
Scheme | XX AXXX BCBX DDDDXEXAXDX EXCBDXBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010010110010110 1 0100100 1011 11001 101 11010 10101 0100110 1001 1001 1101 01010100 1010010 10101 10100 1101 100010 11010 10100 011 1001 0101 1001 110101 010 1101 110010 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 11, 8 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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