Analysis of Heavenly Known
Art must be transcendent
to justify itself
It must leave its creator
and go somewhere else
Directing itself onward
in a life of its own
Its form to become formless
—once heavenly known
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Scheme | XX XA XB AB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11001 1111010 0111 0100110 001111 111011 11001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 222 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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