Analysis of Poetic Life
Tabitha J. Bryson 1973 (Indianapolis, Indiana)
When you read my poems
you are seeing into my heart
do I seem unnaturally negative
or perhaps a little bit tart?
Do you see a flood of tears
running between the lines?
Do you feel my sense of humor
the hidden punch lines?
My soul is in every word
every line that is said
I bare my all to you
welcome into my head.
Seeing life
filtered through my eyes
gives you a sense of depth
joy cannot be denied.
My thoughts run through
sometimes way too fast
it can be hard to keep up
the distance is so vast.
All my thoughts and feelings
it can all be found right here
read these at your leisure
please, pull up a comfortable chair.
It'll be a wild ride
and perhaps a strange one, too
but hopefully I've touched your heart
and haven't made you feel too blue.
But that's life as they say
and it ain't always supposed to be pretty
because if you lose the ugly
then you'll also lose the poetry.
Scheme | XAXA XBCB XDED XXXF EGXG XXCX FEAE XHHH |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (63%) |
Metre | 111110 11100111 11101000100 10101011 1110111 100101 11111110 01011 11101001 1001111 111111 100111 101 10111 110111 110101 1111 01111 1111111 010111 111010 1111111 111110 111010001 101011 0010111 11001111 01011111 111111 0111011110 01111010 111010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 849 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on September 14, 2008
Submitted by tabbycat_b on June 13, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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