Analysis of Enlightenment
Watching, waiting as the opportunities rise,
Climb alone and see the shadows as you go,
Ride the wave of inhibition to the fore,
Tread the air as the waters start to flow.
Swiftly over to horizons gently float,
Mind the castles long surrounded by their moat,
Touch the turrets, structures angled in their way,
Reconcile the passage made within the fray.
Visions, trances, paths familiar-- days between,
To a spirit seeking levels yet unseen,
Rapturous phases passed throughout the astral climb,
Leveling out to a state of mind sublime. . .
Scheme | XAXA BBCC DDEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10101001001 1010101111 1011010101 1011010111 10101010101 10101010111 10101010011 1001010101 1011010101 10101010101 100101010101 10011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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