Analysis of Echoes



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
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

About this poem

Written by John M. Hughes

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Submitted by harsharaorane on June 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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