Analysis of Glass Houses
Closeted belief…
atheist’s disguise
Slings and arrows,
boomerang’s surprise
Empty of graces,
desperate to fill
Shot through the heart
—their spirits to kill
(Noon Mass: St. Thomas of Villanova Chapel, February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10001 10001 1010 101 10110 1011 1101 11011 11110101010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 19, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 19, 2020
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