Analysis of Into Their Hands
Dreams, like orphaned water lilies,
float across the surface
Ferrying my last token wish,
adrift—this silver pond
The swans make way,
as faith glides freely upon the wind
Carrying my fervent hopes
into this moment, present sent
Their petals weaving in the breeze,
to spin and turn as one
Silhouettes change and soften,
as the mirrored distance calls
Arriving at the far bank,
two children play and laugh together
With pant legs high and feet immersed,
splashing to and fro
Smiling to each other, their laughter
churns a magic torrent
As they reach into its spray,
and take my dream into their hands
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Scheme | AX XX BX XX AC CX XD XX DX BX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 101010 10011101 011101 0111 111100101 1001101 01110101 11010001 110111 011010 1010101 0101011 110101010 11110101 10101 101110110 101010 1110111 01110111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 30, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 21, 2019
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