Analysis of Raven
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
In the darkest night,
When all else is still,
The raven takes flight,
With secrets to fulfill.
Black as coal,
Its feathers gleam,
A creature of the soul,
With secrets unseen.
In the folklore of old,
The raven was a sign,
Of fortune or misfortune unfold,
A bird of both light and dark to bind.
For like a man,
The raven is both good and bad,
A balance of yin and yang,
Its secrets all too sad.
The raven understands,
The value of secrecy,
For in a world of shifting sands,
Retaining balance is key.
A man too is like the raven,
A creature of darkness and light,
His secrets hidden in a haven,
Balanced in his might.
To retain one's secrets,
Is to hold power within,
For only the raven knows the depths.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DXDX XEXE FGFG HAHA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101 11111 01011 110101 111 1101 010101 11001 00111 010101 110101001 011110111 1101 01011101 0101101 110111 01001 0101100 10011101 0101011 01111010 01011001 110100010 10011 101110 1111001 110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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