Analysis of My Spoken Lord



Devoted to my writing,
  a prayer with every word

Faithful to each line I write,
  my verse—my spoken Lord

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)kpb


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 0101110 0111001 1011111 111101 010010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 145
Words 23
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 11, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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