Analysis of The Voice
When I was starving,
poetry fed me
When I was sick,
the verse made me well
When I was homeless,
words gave me shelter
When I was lost
—the voice led me home
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
Scheme | XX XX XA XX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 10011 1111 01111 11110 11110 1111 01111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 191 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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