Analysis of Master on the mountain
There is a master on the mountain that knows all.
The path to him is a most tretrous climb,
death is certin with peralous fall,
in winter snow so white it will blind.
A testament of strength and courage it will draw
and bring enlightenment into the mind.
This knowledge sough becons a call that eccos through the vally of time.
The path is both narrow and wide,
with endless void and cliff on both sides
that twists through the black of the nigh
and the peak leads up out of sight.
Though the journey is both hard and long
you know you must travel on
so your venture plays out like a song.
Finally when your goal is reached you sit and ask the master to teach,
but he speaks in riddlous toung and this is what is sung.
"Though you have ventured long and far i say go find me a flower,
though you are cold and week you must find the power,
once you succeed bring this thing to me,
then you will understand and see,
clearly this knowledge does not lie with me".
"To find the answers to all you seek,
look inside yourself
and you will become the master high upon the peak".
Scheme | ABACXCBXXXX DXD XXEEFFF GXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010111 011110111 111111 010111111 010011010111 0101000101 11011011110111 01111001 110101111 11101101 00111111 101011101 1111101 111011101 10011111110101011 111011011111 1111010111111010 111101111010 110111111 1110101 1011011111 110101111 10101 0110101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,066 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 3, 7, 3 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on June 29, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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