Analysis of Voices
Ellen Merritt 1965 (South Carolina)
It's OK. We've come before.
We will again.
Our voices, our lights, are not loud.
But they are many.
We shine Truth Light on lies and all evils
Which hiss in anger and pain
And then slither back into the darkest corners
There to foment and fester
Until we of Light and Truth are silenced yet again
Leaving them free to dance to Hell's cacophonous tune.
It's happened before.
It will again.
Earth's guardians turn into its destroyers, blinded by greed and ambition.
But with each turn of the Wheel,
A few more awaken and gain Sight. Their voices join to ours
In a quiet healing melody of hope.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHBIABJKGL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 1101 1010101111 11110 1111110110 1101001 011010101010 1110010 0111101110101 1011111111 11001 1101 1100101101010110010 1111101 0110100111101110 00101010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 582 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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