Analysis of PLANTING SEEDS



I'm planting seeds
Into the cold hard ground,
My fingers are raw and bloody
But I don't mind the pain.
I'm planting seeds
The seeds of freedom,
The seeds of hope,
The seeds of peace.
I know
The rain will come again
And soak the ground beneath,
And the earth will come alive,
The flowers will rise
Out of the dust,
Out of the ashes,
My mother's beloved roses
Pale pink against green.


Scheme AbcdAefghijklmnop
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 010111 11011010 111101 1101 01110 0111 0111 11 011101 010101 0011101 01011 1101 11010 1100110 11011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 383
Words 82
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 296
Words per stanza (avg) 73

About this poem

This poem is for my parents, my brother and everyone else who died because of the civil war in Ukraine. On both sides.

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Written on December 14, 2022

Submitted by tatianalyulkin on December 14, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Tatiana Lyulkin

I'm a Ukrainian American poet, playwright and artist who lives in Burlingame, CA. more…

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