Analysis of Dear Mother Earth



Dear Mother Earth,
thank you..you've mothered me since I had my first steps on your ground
and even in this grave you've comforted me  
I'm sorry I left so early
I couldn't hang on
I couldn't take up the pain of being constantly stepped on although you've been familiar with this feeling since your Genesis
anyway.. I hope you take up these flowers
no one really appreciates you so I have decided to
if there are no flowers, take up their tears and grow trees that bear no sorrow
that are brighter than tomorrow
just like the field of your heart
you taught me strength because even when it rained to held us firm to your ground, striving for our stability but in the process you lost your ability to be you
we made you vulnerable, and of course you put us first

thank you for finding me
before I found myself
really I would have been lost if you hadn't curved up a way for me to escape


Scheme XXAAXXXBCCXBX AXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 1111111111111 01001111001 11011110 11011 110110111010011111010111011100 1011111110 11100101111101 111110111101111110 1110101 1101111 11110110111111111110110010010011110100111 11110000111111 111101 01111 10111111110110111101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 888
Words 174
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 13, 3
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 350
Words per stanza (avg) 85

About this poem

A poem to the ground from which I came appreciating it as I go back to the soil. During dark times mother earth still shines

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Written on October 16, 2022

Submitted by charlenedipuleng on October 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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