Analysis of A Virtue Lost and Lonely



How patience pr*cks my fingers of valued virtue,
When calmness would not keep my callousness,
Like the urgency of time ticking on my clock chiming,
And you said cats could not companion me here.

So hours slide, slippery through these timbers,
As moments meander in and out of damp doorways,
Lighting left to luminosity of the sun and skies above,
And no showered love sits soundly in these window sills.

This alchemist of aspirated affection adorns her crown,
Of lost virtue, vanity, verbosity in a fashion firmly found,
With tiers of no triumph made in recourse, all remedies rued,
Her inheritance, a throne tyrannically trammelled of what's accrued.


Scheme AXXX XXXX XXAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111011010 1101111100 1010011101111 01111101011 11011001110 110010001111 101111010101 0110111001101 110011000100101 111010010010101 111110101011001 0010001111101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 640
Words 108
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on October 16, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jessie Ní Leacaí

I'm an Irish speaker, Belfast based. I design hats and headpieces in the wonderful art of millinery. I enjoy science, culture,art, music and have an affinity with the sea. I use 'big words' so invest in a dictionary when reading my poetry. I tolerate no ignorance more…

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