Analysis of To Light The Spoken Air
Thoughts inflame as feelings stir
Words simmering yet to boil
Unspoken sparks drift through the night
A pyre still to burn
Delphian in its natural form
The smoke a treacherous friend
Ink rekindles and lies cremate
The mind, its woods on fire
As heat restores the human soul
All prodigals return
With hope to melt the frozen dawn,
—and free the poet’s hand
The verses stack and dry of doubt
Their ignition up to you
As dark they wait for your next breath
To light the spoken air
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)
| Scheme | AXXB XXXA XBXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 1100111 01011101 010111 10011001 0101001 110110 0111110 11010101 1101 11110101 010101 01010111 1010111 11111111 110101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 509 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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