Analysis of The Homo Sapien Vastness



None understand
 The Ache of Centuries
 They're numerous as the sand
 Of the seas immensity

The luster of love
 Loses the color when broken
 The affront of-
 All things once spoken

The sheen of abundance
 Turns grotesquely grey
 This hard redundance
 Makes friends shy away

The limp of an arm
 The blue of a hip
 A dead child can't charm
 A new babe out the hip

A sad woman's soul
 The poison in tears
 The heave, ebb, then roll
 Increasing with years

Youths' regal state
 First waste the face
 In old age you hate
 The fading of grace

Men who were steel
 Genuflect towards the land
 Making them feel
 Like a nameless brand

A forest once sown
 Grows to the point
 Until time's hewn
 What water can't anoint

War is for kings
 But death has the keys
 The great cygnet ring
 Brings countries to their knees

Inside of pain
 We all will reside
 For one it's the same
 And no one can hide.


Scheme ABAA CDCD XEBE FGFG HXHX IJIJ KAKA XLXL XBXB XMXM
Poetic Form Quatrain  (90%)
Tetractys  (43%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 101 011100 1100101 1011 01011 10010110 0011 11110 011010 10101 111 11101 01111 01101 01111 011101 01101 01001 01111 01011 1101 1101 01111 01011 1101 10101 1011 10101 01011 1101 0111 110101 1111 11101 0111 110111 0111 11101 11101 01111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 853
Words 163
Sentences 2
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on October 01, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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