Analysis of Echoes
John M. Hughes 1975 (Mississippi)
Echoes
A voice cries out screaming to be heard;
Lost in an existence of broken sorrow
Just as in the beginning a voice thunders;
Traveling forever in eternity lost
The thoughts of yesterday, living today;
The thoughts of tommorow, living yesterday
Exhorting, begging, beseeching to be heard;
Echoes in a timeless expanse
No name or face to a broken voice;
Searching for a place to exist
Love for the loveless is an excess;
A heavy burden you must bear alone
A brief moment we are here coexisting;
Only our words left for hearts to remember
Our memories spoken on lips still warm;
While long cold the fires of a voiceless cry
Soon all words no longer remembered nor even cared;
All that remains are echoes resonating throughout eternity.
Scheme | XAXXXBB AXXXXX XXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 011110111 10101011010 11000100110 100010001001 011101001 01111010 01010010111 10001001 111110101 10101101 11010111 0101011101 0110111010 101011111010 10100101111 11101010101 1111100101101 1101110100010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 739 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Written by John M. Hughes
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