Analysis of Apprentice Angel
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
You go join them boy
We're seeming short by one.
No time to roust that baritone
If we're to greet God's Son.
I know you missed most practices
But heart means more than that.
And you observed the Feast of Lights.
When Jewry knocked them flat.
Those dread foes downed Jerusalem.
But strains of Holy Light
Sustained the Temple eight full days
The candles burning bright.
And you burn too Young Troubador.
And you will do just fine.
To sing to shepherds, guiding verse.
That they the Babe should find.
Begone, sing now, and evermore
That Mankind has their King.
The years will show His Mission pure.
And remedy all things.
Scheme | X A X A X B X B X C X C D X X X D X D X |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111 110111 1111110 111111 11111100 111111 01010111 110111 11110100 111101 01010111 010101 011111 011111 11110101 110111 111010 111111 01111101 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Written on December 24, 2022
Submitted by dougb.72572 on December 24, 2022
Modified by dougb.72572 on December 24, 2022
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