Analysis of Hygiene
As souls washed through the fields of rose
And soldiers mustard stories told
The birds watched on in trees of might
To this day pounding through the night
And rabbits eyes in shock and fear
Burrowed deeper than was mere
And snails and slug slid under foot
To join their fellows as they shook
And upon their weary shells did lay
A prayer for whom to come his way
New youngest soldier as he prayed
To be forgiven all he did
And grow in strength to face the gun
Till handshake took him to the run
The run of life A ribbon blood fueled
To blow in the wind like echo of moon
As his skin cells float on the lakes of stars
Carrying messages of strength afar.
To birth sign and breach
To lover to teach
The meaning of life
Like the touch of an angel
Who sympathised
With all that he was and
Was to become
Forgiven as a flower of the fields where it all began.
Scheme | ABCCDDEFGGHIJJKLMNOOPQBRST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 01010101 01110111 11110101 01010101 110111 01011101 11110111 001110111 01111111 11010111 11010111 01011101 1111101 0111010110 1100111011 1111110111 1001001101 11101 11011 01011 1011110 11 111110 1101 010101010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 855 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 681 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 169 |
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Written on June 08, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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