Analysis of The Coming
I can hear it coming--at full speed, and
I am scared stiff. But a "cobarde," I am not.
Fact is, I am brave, like that young student activist
That joined thousands of his fellow nationalists
Braved bullets and waded through truncheons
And clubs of the Manila metrocom police...
Back in the late 60s.
(By the way, 'twas not for naught that
We sought justice and truth,
For valianty, we won the war we fought.)
Yes, I can hear it coming, and as it nears,
I hear my name...eerily in the whispering wind.
I can only cover my ears...trying to ignore it,
Or fool myself into believing...
It is not happening.
I can feel and smell it, like a flower in between
My arthritic fingers, and I don't like it. Prickly and
Mephitic, it is not white, yellow, red, nor pink.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNNOAP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101110 1111101111 1111111110100 111011101000 110010110 0110010101 10011 10111111 111001 11110111 11111100111 1111001001 111010111011 11101010 111100 1110111010001 10101001111100 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 739 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 572 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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