Analysis of Bones hollow
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
The bones grew still and hollowed as the blood weaved through their cracks
As cumbersome a weight of bodies
Fell upon their backs
And carried to the waterfall to
Fill its deepest pool
So the ground cried seeping
Through the mountainside anew
Its tears of teaming pain
Into the arms of angels too
And as they touched the sleeping
In their dreams it fell
And they imagined falling into the deepest well
As opened shared their dreams and a seeping dribble too
Like the tear of a god that fell waterfall through time.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101011111 110001110 10111 01010101 11101 101110 101001 111101 01011101 0111010 01111 0101010010101 1101110010101 101101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 420 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Written on June 09, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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