Analysis of To become one of us
Mark Cloutier 1972 (Kaneohe)
As it is lay to waste
The earth is filled
With light and water
As a word returns
In an hour of its finest
Minds and lights
Of a word birthed
Into a world unknown
Loosed and bound
To hang around
Until called to
Like a messenger
Holding a book at hand
Ready to descend
Upon a world
That is eclipsed
By both sun and moon
As the shadow of one
As the truth is soon
To become one of us
As strangers walk among us
In friendship of those
Who were told
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 0111 11010 10101 01101110 101 1011 010101 101 1101 0111 10100 100111 10101 0101 1101 11101 10111 10111 101111 1101011 01011 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 421 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 351 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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