Analysis of Grief & Hope
Grief & Hope 1988 (Spencerport)
As the pages flew off the desk top calendar
I noted that hope could be on the horizon
In the gradient beauty of the setting sun
Won't this new year be lighter?
Because it isn't the year in which you passed
But now this is a year
that you will never have lived in
Making you a part of the past
Gnawing on my mind,
Grief is so complex
It's like an ever changing maze
Finding it's way back to me
Sadness, doubt & rage
These feelings creep up & they bombard
Sometimes, I don't know how to feel
My emotions are like a deck of cards
And now I just can't deal
Why is it so hard
When life must always end with death?
Why do I feel so torn
When this is part of the process?
Maybe there is no differentiation
Between what I think
And what I know
But I'm not sure
I still wait for hope in the horizon
as the orange blends into pink
Blends into yellow
Perhaps only time will be my cure
Scheme | ABBACXXCXXXXXDEXE DXXX BFGHBFGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011011100 110111110010 001001010101 1111110 01110010111 111101 11110110 10101101 10111 11110 11110101 1011111 1011 11011101 01111111 1010110111 011111 11111 1111111 111111 1111101 1011100010 01111 0111 1111 1111100010 10101011 10110 011011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 878 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Written on January 16, 2024
Submitted by Kara_mia1223 on January 16, 2024
Modified by Kara_mia1223 on January 16, 2024
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