Analysis of Safe From The Light
I lie down in the shadows
where no one can reach me
My seventh and last
place to hide
The sixth was a funeral,
the fifth when in hospice
The fourth was each time
that I lied
The third was a promise
I made to a girl
That she took
to her own grave
The second a promise
I made to myself
From a vision
my Grandmother gave
The first was the darkness
where I exited that world
On a day that was
cold and bright
Now the process is finished,
as I hide for the last time
In the shadows
—and safe from the light
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2010)
Scheme | AB XC XD EC DX XF DX XF DX XG XE AG B |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (48%) |
Metre | 111001 111111 11001 111 0110100 011010 01111 111 011010 11101 111 1011 010010 1111 1010 1101 011010 1110011 10111 101 101110 1111011 001 01101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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