Analysis of Is There A Way?



Amazed in the maze standing tall through it all I find
Myself down with the sound of confusion all around, and

Through the clear water splash into the last stash
Of hate turned good and allowed a last flash.

Solid block of grunt shoving shoulder breaking through to
The side that’s wide sunny sunlit vast unbroken blue, then

I brought the thought you fought the ought
And rang a bang bang stang over and under and through the best they caught.

Rattle! Jangle! Metal clanks as pipes of dreams clatter and tangle
And wrangle and mangle banging  clash of wracking streetwise twisted angle, but

Where’s the sting?! Bring! Bring the sting full into the ring
Where I fight to sing and seek the wing that soars away from all these things.

Whisper peace to the ear that hears and has no fear
And has no need no creed no lead and sees the deed, that

Was done in love’s time.  What crime? No crime and no dropping dime.
Time to rest and time to find what’s never blind, and forever mine.


Scheme XX AA XX XX XX XX XX XX
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 0100110111111 1110110101010 10110101011 1111001011 1011110101011 0111101101011 11011101 01011110010010111 1010101111110010 010010101110110101 101110110101 11111010111011111 101101110111 0111111101011 11011111101101 1110111010100101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 971
Words 181
Sentences 11
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 48
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on February 19, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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