Analysis of The Silly Hope
She wrote me a letter
She will come tomorrow
It was wonderful
I stayed waiting
Every day I read the letter
I will wait for tomorrow
To see and meet
My beloved promised to come
I was then eighteen
My emotions, my feelings
Twisted for a person
Whom I had not seen
I waited and waited
Since my eighteenth
Until I became eighty
I could not wait for more
I wrote to her and asked
When would come tomorrow
Please come today
And the other day
Someone knocked on the door
I opened
I saw a beautiful woman
Standing and smiling
I felt, just felt
I looked into my pocket
It was full of money
But empty of love
I said sorry and closed the door
I am still waiting tomorrow
I know, never and never
Will come tomorrow
But that silly hope
Lost today.
Scheme | ABCDABEFGHIGJKLMNBOOMPIDQRLSMBABTO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11101 11100 1110 100111010 111101 1101 1011011 11101 1010110 101010 11111 110010 1101 0110110 111111 111001 11101 1101 00101 11101 110 11010010 10010 1111 1101110 111110 11011 11100101 1111001 1110010 1101 11101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 701 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 586 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 145 |
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Submitted on June 16, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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