Analysis of To Those Recalled
Escaping into verse,
the base of the tower rumbled,
the ground beneath was shaken
with new cracks inside its walls
Escaping into verse,
all towering deception crumbled,
as the self-anointed jumped and fell
landing prostrate and so small
Escaping into verse,
the mime shouted out enabled,
his silent thunder raining down
with a message now to scald
Escaping into verse,
a new steeple built and gabled
its bell to ring a lyric toll
—new life to those recalled
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | Abxx Abxx Abxc Abxc x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010011 01101010 0101110 1110111 010011 110001010 101010101 1010011 010011 01101010 11010101 1010111 010011 01101010 11110101 111101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 508 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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