Analysis of Chiron



He touches them, the feeble and weak;
He looks at their anguish, and feel their ache;
He pours his heart and soul and intellect,
And restores the vigor to them once sick.

Notwithstanding the peril he faces,
In every contagion he boldly encounters,
In sleeplessness, exhaustion, and sacrifices,
His faithfullness radiates to each life he touches.

The lives revived are his greatest treasures,
Not wages, riches, or being famous,
Yet no one knows the disease he endures,
The wounded healer may never recoup.


Scheme XXXX ABXA BXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110101001 1111100111 111101010 0010101111 010010110 0100010110010 010100100 1110111110 0101111010 1101011010 1111001101 0101011001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 519
Words 102
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 28

About this poem

This poem is dedicated to the healthcare workers specially during the COVID pandemic who are selflessly serving others but are themselves ailing.

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Written on July 13, 2022

Submitted by rhdscr on July 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Rhodesia Minguito-Cuario

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