Analysis of To Call From Within
Each mind is a filter…
the wheat from the chaff
Each vision dissected,
to cry or to laugh
Each chance in the moment,
to live or to hide
Each reason a marker,
to vow or belie
Each leaf that has fallen,
the price that we’ve paid
Each morning recalling,
which bed is unmade
Each voice in the distance,
one name on the wind
Each memory unspoken
—to call from within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2019)
Scheme | AB XB XX AX CD XD XX CX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 01101 110010 11111 110010 11111 110010 11101 111110 01111 110010 11101 110010 11101 1100010 11101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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