Analysis of The Light
I stare back from the last horizon,
and scientists look bemused
Theologians prey among themselves,
mystics stay confused
Once through the light Divining
no beginnings or their ends
All truth transcending within itself
—as time and space descend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010 0100101 01010101 10101 1101010 1010111 110100101 110101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 284 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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