Analysis of Fight for life
Cathy Coney 1988 (Chicago)
In an army of accusers one weed like plant stands alone
As the winds and snow howls and beats
The struggle is unseen but precious
No-one cares about something seen as useless
As the years go on it battles and survives
A soldier stops to pick up something dropped
Notices a rare beautiful flower that has grown twice the size known
He smiles as he carefully replants it
Cherishing that once weed like plant for what it has become not knowing the struggle!
Scheme | ABCCDEAFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010101111101 10101101 010101110 11101101110 10111110001 0101111101 10001100101111011 111110011 10011111111101110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 457 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 370 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
About this poem
Written on a depressing December day scared of what life has in store
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