Analysis of Hiding From The Light
We worship inside the dark rapture
of our own becoming
Hiding from the very light
—that promises to show us the way
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110010110 1101010 1010101 110011101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 158 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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