Analysis of A Peace of Knowledge
There is a physical sickness
and a mental one,
both which I fight
every day, every night.
The illness that comes
inside my mind,
inside my head,
fills everything with haunting dread.
When my heart falls to chaotic slumber,
when my blood throbs cold in my veins,
I know what I must do,
I grab the rope of things learned new.
Behind the thoughts, the ideas,
behind the stories and truths,
that’s where I lie,
there I’ll be ‘til the day I die.
The words, the learning,
make pathways through my life,
through the ancient brush and scraggily trees,
through the sand, air, and seas.
“Hush,” the knowledge says,
carrying me through the flame.
Though it burns and sears,
it holds me through my blackest of fears.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010010 00101 1111 10011001 01011 0111 0111 1101101 1111101010 11111011 111111 11011111 01010010 0101001 1111 11110111 01010 11111 10101011 101101 10101 1001101 11101 111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 691 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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