Analysis of The dying trees
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
The trees blinked their leaves
Like eyes drooping to a close
The fine rains and intense heat
Were not enough a drench
To quench their endless thirst
They browned and charred
And their trunks began to rot
They knew noone was there
To give them their lot
They had lived in the wilds
And relied on their God
And when it was time
They could not weep
And so they fell piece by piece
Branches snapped
roots became lame
And where they once blew
There was noone to blame
Scheme | ABCDEFGHGIJKLMNOPO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 1110101 0110011 010101 111101 1101 0110111 11111 11111 111001 001111 01111 1111 0111111 101 1011 01111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 463 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 374 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Written on July 26, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on July 26, 2022
Modified on April 04, 2023
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