Analysis of Hopes And Fears.



Like clouds that flit across the sky,
So follow hopes and fears.
What in these clouds see you and me
Dear Sweetheart, smiles or tears?

This little airy fleecy wing,
That flits across the blue,
What message Sweetheart does it bring
Of hope or fear to you?

Pray God it brings you sunny hours
And haply some few tears
To bless like showers your summer flowers
In the long coming years.


Scheme XAXB CDCD EBEA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (33%)
Metre 11110101 110101 10111101 11111 11010101 110101 1101111 111111 111111010 01111 1111011010 001101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 377
Words 73
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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