Analysis of Just and hour

Joseph Berolo 1934 (Bogotá)



Just an Hour

Just an hour
to last a thousand years,
for it is my fear
to pass my time on earth
avoiding death
and yet to meet my fate,
to do so much
almost in a breath,
to build a world
to last beyond the grave,
to love, to plant,
to grow my seed,
to be so brave,
to save the land,
to be a man of age,
to leave a decent name
engraved on a soul,
it all in just an hour
to last a thousand years.

Copyright ©2001 Joseph Berolo


Scheme A ABxxcxxcxdxxdxxxeaB e
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 1110 110101 11111 111111 0101 011111 1111 1001 1101 110101 1111 1111 1111 1101 110111 110101 01101 1101110 110101 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 426
Words 106
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 19, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 31

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sHOR IS THETIME WE HAVE TO LIVE,, ... IN JUST AND HOIUR..

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Written on November 09, 2001

Submitted by aveviajera on September 19, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Joseph Berolo

Joseph Berolo, Colombian born. swiss italian descendant. Poet and writer founder of Naciones Unidas de las Letras, United Nations of the Arts dedicated to promote world peace and harmony through the teaching of poetry and the Fine Arts in the heart and minds of young people,. more…

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