Analysis of Calling From Within
Religion becoming meaningless
when propriety goes away
Nothing to sit atop the lies
nothing to lead astray
Claiming the title to prophecies spun
each figurehead stands tall
To augment the legend of what never was
—as Divinity still calls
(The New Room: January, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010100 10100101 10110101 101101 1001011001 11011 10101011101 1010011 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 272 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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