Analysis of Distant Thunder
We were there,
but we weren’t
We took part,
and we didn’t
There was war,
with all affected
There was death,
and some objected
There was music,
we got lost in
Assassinations,
left us frozen
Alienation,
drove us inward
Graduation,
for beginners
Half a century,
now forgotten
Ten short years,
in time begotten
Raged a storm,
of hope and wonder
Alive today,
—a distant thunder
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Scheme | XA AA XA XA XB XC CA CX XC XB XD AD X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (68%) |
Metre | 101 111 111 011 111 11010 111 01010 1110 1110 0010 1110 0010 1110 010 1010 10100 1010 111 01010 101 11010 0101 01010 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 415 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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