Analysis of A Letter to the Weeping Ash
When the storm whirls on
And the river swirls along;
The sun set at noon
And all that glitters fade soon
All seems at loss
but not all is wrong.
Five broken cords,
Your heart may hurt to the bottom
But my very words
Your soul shall soothe like balsam.
When your heart in pieces was shattered
I was there the pieces to gather
Now the last straw your back is broken
Here shall I be your anguish to soften.
For many a time
You my treat to aid declined
Yes I’ll leave
But not while you bleed.
As my shoulder,
The weight of your sorrow it bears
My fingers,
Away shall wipe your tears.
It may take a Nile
To drown a grain of grief
But in a glass of wine
Even the world may sink;
For healing may come behind years, yes;
It may take time to heal
The wounds of war
But a little sleep
Can wrap the world behind walls
And time may fly without cares.
I praise me not the comforter per se
For if I go to the farther
I may delay
But my comfort with you to the latter
Let peace with you do stay.
Scheme | XABBXA XCXC XDEE XXXX DFXF XXXXXXXXXF XDGDG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 0010101 01111 0111011 1111 11111 1101 11111010 11101 1111110 111010110 111010110 101111110 1111110110 11001 1111101 111 11111 1110 01111011 110 011111 11101 110111 100111 100111 110110111 111111 0111 10101 1101011 0111011 1111010011 11111010 1101 1110111010 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,001 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 10, 5 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
‘A Letter to the Weeping Ash’ is a poem written by the poet to console a grieving friend.
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Written on April 20, 2022
Submitted by jerrylov322 on June 12, 2022
Modified by jerrylov322 on March 15, 2024
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