Analysis of Something Missing



I wish I could always
Be able to hold on to a hope
When life has got me down.
But for me,
There’s always
Something missing in my life,
But I don’t know what.
So, if you would,
Could someone please
Tell me where
My hope is found.


Scheme ABCDAEFGHIJ
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 110111101 111111 111 11 1010011 11111 1111 111 111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 232
Words 53
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 172
Words per stanza (avg) 48

About this poem

This is the struggle to find my faith when it's failing.

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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on January 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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