Analysis of The wilting place.



The flowers are wilting!
They fade in their homes!
Fade into compost
of an early grave.

How short lived they seem!
Why can't they just thrive?
Their water is constant.
Their food - needs give.

The shot of sweet coffee.
Hot liquid a blast.
Yet still they lean heavy
on the cold dirty glass.

They melt into mush.
Their stems begin to weep.
The gush sticks to my hands.
The mountain too steep.

They hold on so long
but is it enough?
No longer so strong.
Hough!
History gave me no faith.

The wilting place...
Where little survives,
but mold and dispair,
for the loss of lives.


Scheme XXXX XXXX AXAX XBXB CDCDX XXXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (48%)
Metre 010110 11011 10110 11101 11111 11111 110110 1111 011110 11001 111110 101101 11011 110111 011111 01011 11111 11101 11011 1 1001111 0101 11001 11001 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 578
Words 133
Sentences 20
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

Unlivable places.

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Written on January 06, 2022

Submitted by heathert.34240 on January 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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