Analysis of Vulnerability
Jennifer McKnight 1987 (United States)
The warmth of vulnerability
has wrapped itself around
Its glow enlightens the void
where sunshine once was found
Engulfed in possibility
my heart it aches to breathe
Neither mountain air nor flailing chest
provide it what it needs
The reverence of maybe
fills lungs as they expand
Exhale as I relinquish
myself into your hands
As the wax on wings of Icarus
my conscious thoughts do melt
Love not what’s seen and heard
but instead what can be felt
Do not imprison Your water
behind a dam to make a lake
Heave the floodgates open
let the rushing waters quake
If in time you find
your lake is running dry
look up to the Heavens
to pray for a moistened sky
Fear not of drowning
Make it be on God you call
Only then is it safe
to close your eyes and fall
Scheme | ABCBADEFAGHIJKLKMNONPQRQSTUT |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100100 110101 1101001 11111 0100100 111111 101011101 011111 0100110 111101 0111010 10111 10111110 110111 110101 1011111 11010110 01011101 10110 1010101 10111 111101 111010 1110101 11110 1111111 101111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 606 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
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