Analysis of The Hollow
Looking up from below
it's sketchy, but I can see
pieces of a person
that once belonged to me.
When I try to grab them,
they seem to fade away,
memories from a past I knew
but no longer have today,
Push yourself, so I've been told,
be a mother and a wife.
You owe it to the ones you love
to sacrifice your life.
But what do you do when you're weary,
and you're tired and can't go on
to the hollow in the tunnel
your existence now belongs.
I long to do the things I see,
so each day I look above,
and try to reach the pieces
of the things I used to love.
They're there, then they're not,
so I rest my mind at ease,
to the hollow in the tunnel
that's become the life for me.
Scheme | xaxa xbxb xcdc axEx adxd xxEa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 101101 1101111 101010 110111 111111 111101 10010111 1110101 1011111 1010001 11110111 11011 111111110 01100111 10100010 1010101 11110111 1111101 0111010 1011111 11111 1111111 10100010 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 669 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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