Analysis of Tragedy

Shakendo 1983 (U.S.)



The Wind blows harsh,
The sky alight,
The chaos wins,
The dead of night.

The devastation real,
The scenery will heal,
People Move on,
History the seal.

People forget,
The scenery regrown,
The cycle starts over,
The End already known.


Scheme XAXA BBCB XCXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 0111 0101 0101 0111 00101 010011 1011 10001 1001 01001 010110 010101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 235
Words 53
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

This is just a random poetic thought about the power of nature, people, and the effects they can have.

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Written on April 24, 2022

Submitted by Shakendo on April 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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