Analysis of Lightning Proclaimed
To be quiet with your friends
and silent with your foes
Creates a thunderous quiescence
which envelopes your soul
Your enemy weakening
as truth starts to rain
His darkness expelled
—by lightning proclaimed
(Train From Virginia: April, 2015)
Scheme | AX AX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 010111 0101001 11011 1100100 11111 11001 11001 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 245 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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