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.


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Poetic Form
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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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Kiki Stamatiou

Kiki Stamatiou hails from Kalamazoo, MI. She is a graduate of Western Michigan University with a BA degree in writing. Her book Dominica's Inferno was published under her pen name Joanna Maharis. It is available online thru www.publishamerica.com and www.barnesandnoble.com more…

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