Analysis of The miraculous image
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
I've seen a land noone else could know.
A place more vivid than an angels glow.
There's more colour there than all earth's layers.
This life somewhere I could never bare
is a planet far from here, I know.
More than any Zion or fear to show.
A land you sleep in as you walk.
No words there so they never talk.
But a God watches you pass him by.
And reads to you your lifely cry.
And says go back its time to fly.
You wake and forget, like hypnotised
Sometimes you remember and want to sigh
Either way you go on in a flash of butterfly.
Like all love has flashed before your eye.
You try to write but you know its goodbye and the miracle image passes you by.
Its as if reality in time itself did die
And you're taken by a whispering cry
Not because a syren asked you there
You ride there on an endless prayer.
You're mind is controlled by energy
More beautiful than feeling free.
If you stop you are one with scenery
Invisible you sit beneath a tree
And when God is ready to catch your last breath
Before you die you're finally rest.
And then you return and you're face too still
You're loved ones think that you have taken ill
So again you stand and take new life
With a tick left with you to move your strife.
You suffer here sometimes to learn
But the heart is always in full bloom.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 0111011101 111111110 11111101 101011111 1110101111 01110111 11111101 101101111 0111111 01111111 1100111 0110100111 101111001110 111110111 11111111100100101011 11110010111 0110101001 10101111 11111101 111011100 11001101 1111111100 0100110101 01111011111 011111001 0110101111 1111111101 101110111 1011111111 11010111 10111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,284 |
Words | 271 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,003 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 253 |
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Written on June 18, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 18, 2022
Modified by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 18, 2022
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