Line of Sight

Steve Cochrane 1955 (Cape)



I look and then I quickly see
Compassion right in front of me.
It's empathy personified
With much concern I saw applied.

I looked a little further on
And saw compassion had not gone,
But was a little hard to find
Among the few with hope to find.

I soon was in a noisy crowd
That seemed to be so very loud
And no one showed compassion there,
As if no one would ever care.

About this poem

Slow disappearance of compassion.

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Written on August 31, 2022

Submitted by steveac21 on August 31, 2022

Modified by steveac21 on September 16, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB XXCC DDEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 373
Words 82
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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