Analysis of Now Heaven Shone
At eighteen,
I thought that I could write my way to heaven
I’d waltz right in, announce my name, and sit
down on its throne
At twenty-five,
I sat in jail to rot in isolation
my freedom gone, my will deformed,
but worst of all alone
At thirty-five,
I thought that I could write my way to riches
the screenplay bombed, all doors were closed,
and wounds there freshly mined
At forty-eight,
I met a man who told me I was lost
“By Looking Out The Words Won’t Come,
Your Truth You’ll Never Find…”
By fifty-five,
my path was set—all trails converged as one
the entrance closed, the exit marked,
a road of denser stone
By sixty-eight,
all verse within, the lines reset to music
the darkness gone, my words set free
—all light now heaven shone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
Scheme | XAXB CAXB CXXD EXXD CAXB EXXB X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
Metre | 101 11111111110 1110011101 1111 1101 1101110010 11011101 111101 1101 11111111110 0111101 011101 1101 1101111111 11010111 111101 1101 1111110111 01010101 011101 1101 11010101110 01011111 111101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 802 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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