Analysis of "if I were lost" a poem written in free verse
Why did they?
In the one that was he,
that walked on water,
the divine spirit.
If it were another to be,
alas, in the winters eye,
as he walked to carry that weight for me.
In the blood that covered his face,
I taste in the wine,
in sips of intrepid lashed whips,
that sting the frost chapped,
of my cold winter lips,
as the warmth,
of his pain,
is filled in my senses,
for he died for me.
I look around,
in the legs,
of the wine,
for his spirit to shine,
for him to walk,
in the enraptured toss,
for it is he,
that guides my steps,
in the circles of waves,
that caress the glass inept,
in the treasures that I have escaped,
as if I were lost.
Scheme | XAXB AXA XCDBDXXXA XXCCXXAXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 001111 11110 00110 11001011 0100101 1111101111 00111011 11001 01101011 11011 111101 101 111 110110 11111 1101 001 101 111011 1111 000101 1111 1111 001011 1010101 001011101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 9, 12 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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