Analysis of Darkness To Light
It wells up inside me,
but words will not come
I reach for them desperate,
the mood zero sum
My insides are shaking,
all peace is recalled
The rumblings foreboding,
complacency falls
My mind is locked down,
my speech has gone mute
Like a great locomotive,
the first word breaking through
The dozens that follow
keep me pinned to my chair
As voices I know
start consuming the air
My brain is on fire,
my will starts to melt
Time sacrificial,
what’s heard and then felt
My pen has unfrozen,
in timeless delight
Directing this journey
—from darkness to light
(Rosemont Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | AB XB CX CX XX XX DE DE XF XF XG AG A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
| Metre | 111011 11111 111110 01101 101110 11101 0100010 01001 11111 11111 101010 011101 010110 111111 11011 101001 111110 11111 1010 01011 111010 01001 010110 11011 1010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 579 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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