Analysis of Hope.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
Believing in the self was easy
when the words did not fail.
Believing in the devine was hard
when the words failed to register
Drifting.
The wood fading into shore.
Piece by piece breaking off.
Until my ship was no more.
Only I drifted
with splintered hands
and downtrodden feet.
Angels flew overhead
asking to thread
my tiny holes back together.
What instead I whispered...
But I was not underwhelmed.
Just drifting by.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIJKKDLMN |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010001110 101111 010000111 10111100 10 0110011 111101 0111111 10110 1101 0101 101101 1011 11011010 101110 111101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 422 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 336 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
About this poem
Adjusting to life.
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Written on November 11, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on November 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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