Analysis of Hazard and Prospect
How we are taken
Lines written while thinking of my recently
deceased parents and what they are missing
How deeply we are taken by the world
and all its glories—how it draws us in,
until we are surrounded by the pearled
light of late day, the cool transparent rosin
of a clear sky across which the virtuoso
sun (this image reminds me of my father)
has swiftly drawn its fine Italian bow,
espressivo. And breathe—and smell—the rather
romantic, yet classical air. And feel it too—
this world’s beauty present to all our senses,
surprising them, like guests who jump out at you
from behind chairs and couches, or like sentences
that draw you in and take you where you never
expected to go and wish you could live forever.
Scheme | ABCDEDAFGHGIJIKGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 11011011100 0110011110 1101110101 0111011110 0111010101 11110101010 101101100010 11100111110 1101110101 10101010 010110010111 111010111010 01011111111 101101011100 11100111110 0101101111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 712 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 573 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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