Analysis of Violet
Amanda Pugh 1984 (Galveston)
I looked down
I saw a color rarely seen in nature
Light purple
It was bright
Vibrant against the harsh road
So I wanted to touch it
I grabbed
I collected
A beautiful flower
That had been
Dicarded
But now
Seen again
For its beauty
Its violet presence
In this world
That upon inspection
Was riddled
With remnants or life
Such as
Slime, mold, insects...
And sun bleached pedals.
It looks as if
It bloomed
It endured
It weathered
And most strikingly
It lived.
It bloomed.
It stretched
Out to the sun
The way it knew how
And became
Its best.
I saw that.
I recognized that.
I loved that.
Endure. Love. Live.
| Scheme | abcdefghbidjklmnopqrstuVwxlyVzoj1 2 3 3 3 4 |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 11010101010 110 111 1001011 1110111 11 1010 010010 111 1 11 101 1110 110010 011 101010 110 11011 11 111 01110 1111 11 101 110 01100 11 11 11 1101 01111 001 11 111 1101 111 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 615 |
| Words | 132 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 38 |
| Lines Amount | 38 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
About this poem
As I look down and see a violet flower on the side of the road I realized how rare and beautiful it is, much like life itself.
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