Analysis of Sophia



Blessing
the last poem
I’m ever to write
My body
reposing
Sophia’s delight
With eyes
dimming slowly
each breath growing thin
My spark
to an Angel
— as light to begin

(1st Book Of Prayers: February, 2024)


Scheme AXBCABXCDXXD C
Poetic Form
Metre 10 0110 11011 110 1 101 11 1010 11101 11 1110 11101 1111100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 210
Words 38
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 06, 2024

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