Analysis of The Worlds a Special Place.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
I don't have to look far to see why,
before the big D I let out a sigh.
My only child who still likes to try,
Like this I have to notice the airborn cries,
Technological advancements, planets on our course.
People at airports waiting in turn for faces that light up so quickly it yearns.
I look at the flora and see their shapes,
Some of them older yet proud in their states.
People pipping to the post, flying through thought but going so slow.
Eyes look at me and I stumble to look back, then I look so hard it seems an attack.
I scratch at stones on a brittle wall, passing I feel weakness in something so strong.
And strength in carrying someone so small; in reading him the Bible so he doesn't feel alone.
Scheme | AAABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111 0101111101 110111111 1111110011 0100010101101 1011100111011111011 1110100111 1111011011 101101101111011 111101101111111111101 11111010110111001011 01010011101010101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 554 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 138 |
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Childhood eyes.
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Written on September 13, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on October 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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