Analysis of Desperate Father
Tis you I lift a pen for
Calling you abroad
To travel back in vessel,
With sails full, wind's time.
I search for resolution
To give heart's, fullest confession,
That by hearing it's virtue,
Your own's heart's, redemption.
Give me your life,
In return for my death,
And I will sprout a seed,
Of wisdom's finest linen.
Be yourself as you may be,
Be your hardest search of yee,
And fear not my disregard,
That love will not pour out, free.
I may be dead, for now
And your death will be mine too,
But before I died, a lot ago,
I died, in dreams of you.
My words, a works of joy and peace.
My body, a reservoir of knowledge.
My Father's voice, a point of crossing,
And your mother, the bridge of travel.
We brought the seed of linger,
To ask a question, we ask, consider,
Who and where is what is to,
How and why is come of you.
I speak in riddled, not,
Though offended one may be,
I am Adam your dad,
Awaiting, with thy mother, Eve.
Scheme | XXAX BBCB XXXB DDXD XCXC XXXA EECC XDXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 1111011 10101 1101010 11111 111010 11110010 1110110 111010 1111 001111 011101 111010 1011111 1110111 011101 1111111 111111 0111111 101110101 110111 11011101 110010110 110101110 011001110 1101110 1101011010 1011111 1011111 110101 1010111 111011 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 944 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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A dead Father speaks from the grave
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