Analysis of Conscience



Conscience is speaking in a still small voice.
Conscience is tweaking
behaviors of choice.
Conscience is chiding in constructive ways.
Conscience is guiding
footsteps through a maze.
Conscience is lurking in genetic codes.
Conscience is working
guilty mother lodes.
Conscience is etching in blueprints of love.
Conscience is fetching
heartbeats from above.
Conscience is knocking in thunderous claps.
Conscience is blocking
improbable gaps.
Conscience is teaching in manners humane.
Conscience is reaching
divinity's plain.


Scheme ABACBCDBDEBEFBFGBG
Poetic Form
Metre 1011000111 10110 01011 1011000101 10110 1101 1011000101 10110 10101 101100111 10110 1101 1011001001 10110 01001 1011001001 10110 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 506
Words 74
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 437
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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