Analysis of Things That Seemed Poetic
Things that seemed poetic were always sad,
though I yearned for sparkle
and my dad's guffaw, which never came.
Familiar things were always drear --
repeated motions in the same old game.
There were only distant glimpses
of budding spring, fleeting views
of daffodils. The strongest
poems dealt me death and dying.
Yet I always hoped, never went under
to gray despair, always dreaming
of a garden of love that we could share.
But those forbidden delights faded
quickly away; the only reality
I understand is the ever-looming
and final one. Nothing's changed.
The strongest poems deal death and dying.
Scheme | ABCDCEFGHDHDIJHKH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010011 111110 011011101 0101011 0101000111 10101010 1101101 110010 10111010 111110110 1101110 1010111111 111000110 100101010 101101010 0101101 0101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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