Analysis of unyielding



What i've woven hardly matters.
With my tapestry in tatters.
Lay in place adorned with shadow.
Await that sunlit meadow.
But the harvest cannot grow,
Without one to make it sow.


Scheme AABBBC
Poetic Form
Metre 11101010 11100010 1010111 01111 1010101 0111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 177
Words 36
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

This was for a contest on poetrysoup.com It had to be 6 lines maximum. I doubt I'll win but, whatever why not. It's about not feeling good enough and wanting things to be better but never really do much to change things (I've got issues).

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Submitted by RyanBlackborough on April 12, 2024

Modified by RyanBlackborough on April 14, 2024

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Ryan Blackborough

For years he lived in a secret government facility. One day they found him and were like "what the fuck are you doing here?", and they shot him. Now he wanders the earth as a ghost, a poet ghost (not a ghost writer, he's way cooler than that). For some reason he can wear hats but if he walks through a wall or something (not like tables or small stuff) the hat falls off. He's lost a lot of nice hats. more…

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