Analysis of Turning Me Back
My pen would be dry if the world
were the only cry for more
But Laura’s voice from within,
asserts with solemn command
Kindling my eternal fire—stoking the
questioning cord
Burning away the doubt
—turning me back around
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 0010111 111101 0111001 10101010100 1001 100101 101101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 42 |
| 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) | 8 |
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