Analysis of Jay
François Giroux 1982 (Canada)
There is a world
And on that world
There is a path
And on that path
There you stand
There is no compass
There is no map
There is only your heart
Lighting the dark
| Scheme | AABBX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 0111 1101 0111 111 11110 1111 111011 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
May the light within you always shine through.
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