Analysis of Packing Her Bags
Packing her bags she moves away to make another start.
Unwittingly her "feet of clay"
trample a trusting heart.
Countless covenants unspoken give an auspicious guise.
Unawares, tacit vows broken
cause holds to jeopardize.
Dominating the surveillance every view is cockeyed.
Resignation in abeyance,
all that's real is denied.
Ties that bind abruptly sever smack-dab out of the blue.
Definitions of forever
instantly turn askew.
Expectations and aftermath refuse to coincide.
The upshot was no primrose path
and hope is set-aside.
She reaches her destination, unpacking to unwind,
in spite of her inclination
nothing is left behind.
Scheme | AXA BCB DXD EXE DXD FCF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011101110101 01000111 100101 10100010110101 0110110 11110 1000010100111 0100010 111101 11101010111101 0101010 100101 01001001101 011111 011101 1100010010101 0110010 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 06, 2023
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