Analysis of Ode to I Am
On the banks of Bethlehem
I danced with all I am
Is what I am.
I sang out with all that I had
Within my shell of a corpse.
My heart, it wept for all I was
With treasure that was held within.
On my way down to the road of eternity
With what I am is what I am.
I drank the wines held by him.
The verses that he spoke
With words of honey
That "we are one with what we see,
with all we feel and with all we touch."
Mesmerized by his glance,
I looked inside his soul.
When I looked into his big blue eyes,
I sank into the waters of Galilee.
I was cleansed of that past
That I once knew.
That body that once was cold
Now is stained with his bloody tears
That he cried.
I wept by his side.
The salt, it burned my chafing cheeks.
We quenched our thirst for peace and love.
Scheme | ABBCDEFGBHIGGJKLMGNOPQRRST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 111111 1111 11111111 0111101 11111111 11011101 111110110100 11111111 1101111 010111 11110 11111111 111101111 10111 110111 111011111 1101010110 111111 1111 1101111 11111101 111 11111 01111101 111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 739 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 582 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 163 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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