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
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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Written on February 28, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on February 28, 2024

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