Analysis of "The Reckoning"
Feel its fury
hear it roar
Avenging Angel
vengeance born
Apostatic
idols vain
Bear the sentence
its will proclaims
Chants of guilt
awaken sinners
From their dark
infected dreams
O’er the mountains
to the ocean
Heaven’s rage
—its verdict screams
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
| Scheme | XXXX AXXX XXAB XXXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 111 01010 101 1 101 1010 1101 111 01010 111 0101 1010 1010 101 1101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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