Analysis of Line of Sight
Steve Cochrane 1955 (Cape)
I look and then I quickly see
Compassion right in front of me.
It's empathy personified
With much concern I saw applied.
I looked a little further on
And saw compassion had not gone,
But was a little hard to find
Among the few with hope to find.
I soon was in a noisy crowd
That seemed to be so very loud
And no one showed compassion there,
As if no one would ever care.
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11011101 01010111 1100010 11011101 11010101 01010111 11010111 01011111 11100101 11111101 01110101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 373 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
Slow disappearance of compassion.
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