Analysis of Free To Roam
The mind and body dualist,
his prison for a throne
Confusion reigns where consciousness walks,
where can it find a home
The soul the prize that matters,
the spirit up for grabs
Proximity defining its own lie,
positioning unclad
But somewhere in the distance,
and somewhere heretofore
A laughter lives beyond itself,
escaping its own core
The zero-sum dilemma,
what Sages claim to own
Lay far beyond what’s deep within
—where truth is free to roam
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)
Scheme | AB XC XX XA XD XD XB XC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010100 110101 010111001 111101 0101110 010111 0100010111 01001 110010 0101 01010101 010111 0101010 110111 11010101 111111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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