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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