Analysis of Heavy Wings.

Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)



It is as a bird catching its breath
in the hands of an angel
who sits between the hearth
and the Christmas pine.

That wall closing in:
focusing the mind
on cores of your beginning;
the time you were mine.

Who you are shaped
in ancient matrix;
your body caped
in delicate feathers shine.

As the world fills
with knowledge a glow
pushing tills of items
towards your home fine.

Until no more
your need emptied
and want laid bare
only then we dine.


Scheme XXXA XXXA BXBA XXXA XXXA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Etheree  (35%)
Metre 111011011 0011110 110101 00101 11100 10001 1111010 01101 1111 01010 1101 0100101 1011 11001 101110 01111 0111 1110 0111 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 455
Words 102
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 71
Words per stanza (avg) 17

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Written on November 13, 2021

Submitted by heathert.34240 on November 13, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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