Analysis of In The Wind
God created distance,
so the wounded could go home
The searchers and the dreamers,
the ones born bound to roam
He then laid down the open plain,
below a towering sky
And set his voice into the wind
—for pilgrims such as I
(Villanova University: March, 2020)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 1010111 0100010 011111 11110101 0101001 01110101 110111 01001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 251 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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