Analysis of HOPE
Hope is like a dare, with sights, sounds, and an eyeball’s glare
Headlight beams on sunny days, fearsome loss can meet high praise
Nocturnal sounds in black midnights, reveal blindness in broad daylight
Hope thrives in joy and despair, yet hope is sinking everywhere
Hope decries lies and misery, yet hope is rising imperfectly
Lessons learned in Monday school, make learned ones into fools
Conclusions, illusions, confusion, and shame
Turns hope-full ness into a loser’s game
When all is lost, and hope regains-memories gone but remain the same
Scheme | AXX AXX BBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011110111 1111011011111 01010110110011 11010011111010 10110100111100100 1010101111011 01001001001 1111010101 11110101100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 542 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
A COMMENTARY ON THE HUMAN CONDITION AND WHY THIS CONCEPT IS ILLUSIVE
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Written on October 31, 2021
Submitted by savillealan on November 01, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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