Analysis of Don't Blaspheme
Don’t talk to me about form,
when the feeling isn’t there
Don’t talk to me about substance,
when experience is rare
Don’t talk to me about insight,
when reflection is ignored
Don’t blaspheme an epiphany
—in the presence of the Lord
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 101011 11110110 1010011 1111011 1010101 1110100 0010101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 286 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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