Analysis of All things hollow
Promises gentle caress searching eyes
Forgotten pretensions, corrupt smothered skies
Sealed in description are wandering fates
Entire concealment of secrets in wait
Damaged in moments of failure's surprise
Confined to rare prisons and faltering tries
Paved in detainment are paths of defeat
Sentenced to sorrow and lost love's retreat
Stand-offs in silence evade wars of self
Weak, pale decisions and endless pain wealth
Rendered possessions fill vaults of decay
Once trusted in anger, now feared to betray
Overgrown harvests now empty in bloom
Happiness searches to escape from the gloom
I see you tomorrow, still washed in the past
Though we create it, we fall to the wrath
Through eternal conviction and tattered sublime
Over dead heroes heart and madness to find
The reaching diversions behind me still flow
Yet nowhere to find, your wounds to console
Scheme | AAXX AABB XXCC DDXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 1001001101 01001001101 1001011001 01001011001 100101101 01111001001 10111101 1011001101 1101001111 1101001011 1001011101 11001011101 011011001 10010101101 1110111001 1101111101 101001001001 10110101011 01001001111 111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 836 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 25, 2023
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