Analysis of Blessing's For Sale
Church always sides
with canons and might,
preaching of dawn
while blessing the night
Holiness shines
among diamonds and gold,
the battle unwon
—till redemption is sold
(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)
| Scheme | XABA XCBC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 11001 1011 11001 1001 011001 0101 101011 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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