Analysis of Desperation



Shell and snail, your memoirs so deep,
Repudiate, to a pool I weep;
Sun may not, in my heart you peep,
Seeds sown, nature may not let me reap.

Height of despair, nature and God I curse,
As staunch, let joy loop my purse;
Moon to moon, wholeheartedly I pray,
You fade, my soul dissipate like whey.

Battle I nature, in conscience court,
Demean and anchor, like a moat;
Desperate prayers, don't kick a boot,
Prostrate, hang no knife on this scapegoat.


Scheme AAAA BBCC XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1011111 01010111 11101111 111011111 1101100111 1111111 111100011 11111011 101100101 01010101 1011101 10111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 437
Words 82
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

This poem was written in 1999 and expresses desperate emotions on a loved one. This poem was published in poetry.com in 2001.

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Written on June 10, 1999

Submitted by paran11 on September 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Paranthaman Venkatesan

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