Analysis of Orphaned Silent
You hear the words calling,
but what if they stop
What if the voice changes
to cold what was hot
And it’s not yours at all
but a squatter that hides
D.N.A. of its own
new agenda of lies
Those messages before,
were they gifts or on loan
Is the feast yours to eat,
will meat stay on the bone
Will the Muse be unfaithful,
is divorce in the wind
Leaving words then unnamed
—orphaned silent within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)
Scheme | XX XX XX AX XA XA XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 11111 110110 11111 011111 101011 11111 101011 110001 011111 101111 111101 1011010 101001 101101 101001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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