Analysis of My Back To The Light
All of my life,
I’ve been trying to hide
Drifting untethered
roaming inside
All of my life,
I have chosen to wait
Judging unholy
making mistakes
All of my life,
my arms have been short
The reach much too long
as failure reports
All of my life,
the truth insecure
My back to the light
—the present unsure
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2014)
| Scheme | Abbb Axxx Axxx Axxx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 111011 101 1001 1111 111011 10010 1001 1111 11111 01111 11001 1111 01100 11101 01001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 338 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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