Analysis of In a Dry Land
Where Truth and Love reside,
evil cannot hide,
the voice is louder,
the heart-- stronger,
and trust in God abides.
I am a pilgrim
in a dry and arid land,
walking through heaps of sand.
Star-lit sky is my guide,
it leads me to a deep well
of the cool waters of Life.
| Scheme | AABBX XCCAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 10101 01110 0110 010101 11010 0010101 101111 111111 1111011 1011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 256 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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