Analysis of Without It

Mathew L. Hunt 1973 (Los Alamitos, CA)



Cold is the heart that beats alone,
And even colder, the one that led it there.
Warmth is hard to find at home
When the mind is lost, and the soul is bare.
Time can't heal the disease
When the cure is worse than being sick.
The future is hard to see
When the past is somberly lit.
Hard to follow is the path of dreams
That shatters with every step.
The effort in plans and schemes
Are far too often not met.
It is hard to let go
Of the thing that won't let you.
It is the right thing, you know,
But the ending seems blue.
When all is done that can be,
Only one thing will remain:
To move on with life free,
But always with the pain.


Scheme ABCBDEFGHIHJKLKLFMFM
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Metre 11011101 01010011111 1111111 1011100111 111001 101111101 0101111 10111001 111010111 11011001 0100101 1111011 111111 1011111 1101111 101011 1111111 1011101 111111 11101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 642
Words 144
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 483
Words per stanza (avg) 131

About this poem

Written years ago, when I was in graduate school at UC Riverside.

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Written on 1998

Submitted by mathewhunt on May 11, 2024

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