Analysis of Mediator - a haiku
Stars shining brightly
Like Annabel Lee's eyes
As she walks.
Quiet but talking is
The mediator alone.
She talks to the dead.
Her eyes shine bright as
She watches the spirit walk
Towards her in mist.
Yellow glowing eyes
From the spirit shine like head
Lights that burn so bright.
Not scared at all the
Mediator whispers to
The broken spirit.
'Listen to me, girl'
The spirit whispers to her.
'I need you, help me.'
The mediator
Stands helplessly as the ghost
Vanishes from sight.
Confused and alone she
Wonders what the message was.
How come ghosts don't tell?
'Tell him and he shall
Know that life is painfully...'
The sad voice drifted.
The voice was cryptic
Like the Oracle's presence
And strange like Herc.
The mediator,
Quiet she thinks about who
To tell the message.
The mediator
Stood alone atop a high,
Estranged mountain.
A mediator
She was cursed to forever
Be. Alone with ghosts.
She, alone and fearless,
Was
Scheme | abx xxc xdx bce xfx xga Gxe ahx xax xxd Gfx Gxx ggx xh |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 11011 111 101101 010001 11101 01111 1100101 01001 10101 1010111 11111 11110 100101 01010 10111 0101010 11111 0100 1100101 10011 010011 1010101 11111 11011 1111100 01110 01110 1010010 0111 0100 1011011 11010 0100 1010101 0110 0100 1111010 10111 101010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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