Analysis of The Maternal Muse
Her voice provided cover,
my soul to turn away
Her message greatly treasured,
her protection my dismay
Her intention of the purest,
but she raised me more than sound
Into the dark I send her words,
exposed—my spirit found
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010 111101 0101010 0010101 00101010 1111111 01011101 011101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 261 |
Words | 43 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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