Analysis of With Living Words I Would Conspire
In the spirit of confession,
language became my enemy.
Words of ransomed thought
are as valueless as the penny.
Dictionary opaque with meaning,
agrees with the counterfeit of intent.
Subtle nuance of emotion seeming
to idle awry, forges the signal bent.
Rather I aspire to the shaman's song,
nonsensical sounds to take on form.
With some botanical tickets along,
what I say resembles a storm.
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 00101010 10011100 1111 111001010 10001110 011010101 1010101010 11001100101 101011011 010011111 1101001001 11101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 391 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 08, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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