Analysis of A High Wire Artist (9/15/88)
William Goresko 1951 (Philadelphia, PA) – 2008 (Willow Grove, PA)
I travel the lonely road
Between exaltation
And oblivion;
A high wire artist
With no safety net.
Looking into the void of
The darkened amphitheater
I walk that fine line,
Foot following foot,
Arms stretched out,
Moving forward half blind.
That hard, taut wire
My feet firmly embrace
Pulls me forward along
The edge ever higher
Up through the black space.
With no end in sight
And no turning back,
I continue along
The seam which joins
The frozen ground below
To the blazing sky above.
| Scheme | ABBCDEFBGHIFJKFJLMKNOE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100101 011 00100 011010 11101 1001011 01010010 11111 11001 111 101011 11110 111001 111001 011010 11011 11101 01101 101001 0111 010101 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 463 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 22 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 389 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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