Analysis of I Kneel And I Pray
Will the words come,
will the words go
Are they forever,
how do I know
What do I think,
what do I feel
Memory escapes,
a spoke off the wheel
Written in blood,
spoken in rhyme
Forever to echo,
forever sublime
Daffodils scatter,
a wolf howls at bay
Nighttime has answered,
—I kneel and I pray
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016
| Scheme | XA BA XC XC XD AD BE XE X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 1011 11010 1111 1111 1111 10001 01101 1001 1001 010110 01001 1010 01111 1110 11011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 331 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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