Analysis of To Guide Me Within
Dreams carry me across
a mysterious land
Where the voice of my fathers
so gently commands
It echoes now softly
in words only sung
A joyous recital
my soul rewoven and spun
I never can stay there
I’ve begged till I weep
Until with barely a whisper
I’m roused from my sleep
But as darkness then falls
on my world once again
A new dream will come calling
to guide me within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX AX XX XB XB XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 001001 1011110 11001 110110 01101 010010 11101 110111 11111 01110010 11111 111011 111101 0111110 11101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 398 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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