Analysis of Calling Us Home
With only twelve notes
the music commands
Some white and some black
their harmony grand
Scoring the melody
eternal and free
Whether Quincy or Frank,
Prince, Peggy, or me
Heaven the audience
Angels out front
Truth for a drummer
Sandalphon conducts
All time in abeyance
the chorus in song
Both gates swinging open
—the silence is gone
(The New Room: April, 2023)
Scheme | XXXX AAXA BXXX BXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 01001 11011 11001 100100 01001 101011 11011 100100 1011 11010 101 110010 01001 111010 01011 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 371 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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