Analysis of Walking on the Sahara



The angry sun beats upon my brow,
My bare shoulders carry the weight
Invisible to any watching eye,
As I cross the ruling desert
Intent on not letting me through.
The ferocious sand is hungry,
Gnawing on my cracked feet
As I journey, it pulls the energy
From me, steadily banishing me
From my path, my existence.
And still I stop not,
Unaffected by the hindrances,
The tearful delusions choking
My aching mind, my soul that
Begs me further forward, onward now.
Venture, continue, remember,
Replies my heart , beating
Out the harshness of the sun,
Stabbing out the throbbing pain
That I so unwillingly caress.
And then, at last,
At last I am across
Open to the oceans full of life
Which steal me away from the vastness,
The expanse far, far behind me.


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (28%)
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 726
Words 134
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 592
Words per stanza (avg) 135
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kassandra M. Konecny

Kassandra Konecny is a lover of listening to music, hiking in the mountains, and observing the way people act. She began writing vigorously when she was fourteen and will hopefully never stop. She has had her fair share of trials lately, and tries to encompass nearly every subject there is to study into her writing. Kassandra plans to study creative writing and psychology. She's 17 and currently lives in Utah with her family. Contact her at kassandrakonecny@hotmail.com more…

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