Analysis of The hay in my hand
I wish the hay would fill my hand
And that God in heaven would understand
That this soft world is easy to bare
But when my world is opened and shared
And the merging hay of sons out there
Takes my mind to distant loved ones shared
I hope the world remembers I cared
With each peel of thought layered and layered
I tried to council through the tangled threads
That never bent and barely even bled
And with each sip of this endless yet mindless cup
As the touch of eyes around looked softly down
Sometimes I remembered to stop and look up
And when I do in that word of thought
After reading this poem in too many I brought to tears
I reconsile my Ill will and offer all that I feel.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 011010101 111111011 111111001 001011111 111110111 110101011 1111110010 1111010101 1101010101 011111101101 10111011101 01101011011 011101111 101011001101111 111110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 545 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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