Analysis of Can The Weary Word Survive?



Here the weary word comes to die,
in my lap, on the sly, whisper gasp.
With twisted leg n' arm, letters cry,
while I hammer a tongue and hasp.

This hinged box I keep to entomb,
the lock and key to exhume trade.
The corpses forlorn, in bored ruin,
a funeral march in endless parade.

This, a would be poet's confession,
I tire of flowery prose, double dose.
Of viral rhyme I'll take a secession,
n' prolific wane, curtails future posts.

Muse is on crucifix of timely demise,
has nothing more to say or expound.
Deader thus, coming as no surprise,
in future, I shall no longer be found!


Scheme ABAB XCDC DXDX EFEF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 10101111 011101101 110111101 11100101 11111101 01011011 010010110 0100101001 101110010 11011001101 1101110010 1010101101 1111011001 110111101 101101101 0101111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 578
Words 110
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on August 03, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Tracy Bollinger

Always liked to write and have written poems periodically over the years. I've never shared them withanyone except for immediate family. Decided to take the plunge and put some out 'there'. But bearwith me, I don't really know what I'm doing. This is therapy of sorts and I hope to let go of the need to rhyme. It's a mental condition. I recently found out my grandmother used to rhyme all herletters to anyone. Go figure. I hope you all enjoy my ranting! I do like what I've seen other's post. more…

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