Analysis of False Hope
How quietly the air stirs,
with running breaths and eyes, a blur.
There is a hand— five fingers,
that hold a match to elicit hope,
but the flame is never lit.
Like cinders, disappointment smoulders
burdening smiles and bony shoulders.
The embers, once stoked by feeble hope
fade to dark too quickly,
leaving the dark to consume.
- Asher J. Bond
Scheme | AXABX AABXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100011 11010101 1101110 110110101 1011101 1100101 100101010 010111101 111110 1001101 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 336 |
Words | 61 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on September 02, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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