Analysis of Escapes
Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)
The anxious mind seeks only escape,
to where it doesn't matter.
Philosophy .faith ,the nearest gate,
a relationship in which to fester.
.
The conscious mind seeing all this,
knows in love we must abide.
And all the fabrications of our desires,
from truth they can not hide.
So the battle is between,
what we know, and what we feel.
.We support our wants with convenient reasons,
while truth alone is real.
If fear and want drive us,
then love can have no place.
No matter how many imposters,
our fevered minds create.
Scheme | XABA CDXD XEXE XXCB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111001 1111010 010010101 001001110 1 01011011 1011101 010010110010 111111 1010101 1110111 101101101010 110111 110111 111111 1101101 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
About escapes and how they lead not to growth but repetition
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