Analysis of Weightless Tapestry
Theirs is a strange art, the weaving of
Air and sound into a weightless tapestry
hanging in the church, a vibrating cloth free
of sorrows that clothes men with God's love
Strange, strange is the shuttle of sound that moves
In and out, out and in around the key
thread of beats in time, that time that he
draws to weave a cloth of sound for another
This is the strangest art, weaving of time
and sound into a cloth one cannot feel
with the hands; we can only touch
It with the ears and soul. A rime
Is a poor needle with which to thread such
A cloth. How can such a needle seal ?
Scheme | ABBA XBBX C DECE D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110101 10101010100 10001010011 110111111 1110101111 0011000101 111011111 11101111010 1101011011 0101011101 10111101 11010101 1011011111 011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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