Analysis of HAVE YOU FLOWN?

Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)



HAVE YOU FLOWN?

Are you bound
Tighter than you've ever known
Is your heart free,
Has it flown
Higher than the birds
High in the sky
Further than the ships
Blazing into space
Beyond all boundaries
Of time and place
Soaring for the limits of
Eternity and finding none
Feeling the liberty
Of the Chosen
Found before Creation
And the Garden
Whence came the Binding.
Hidden in a serpent
A forbidden fruit
Which all men eat
Requiring a Salvation
We can never repay
Seeing dark night
While longing for Day
Free now to soar
On the wings of eagles
Crying in the morning
Dreaming in the evening
Knowing the comfort
And the Joy
Of the truly free?

Are you bound
Tighter then you've ever known
Or are you free,
Have you flown?
AMEN


Scheme A Bacaxxxdxdxeceeefxxxegxgxxffxxc BacAx
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111 1011101 1111 111 10101 1001 10101 10011 011100 1101 1010101 01000101 100100 1010 101010 0010 11010 100010 01001 1111 01000010 111001 1011 11011 1111 101110 100010 100010 10010 001 10101 111 1011101 1111 111 01
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 722
Words 142
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 31, 5
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 193
Words per stanza (avg) 44

About this poem

but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40 13

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Written on March 22, 2024

Submitted by crucifiedinhim2 on March 22, 2024

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