Analysis of The Poet
Just because l've written a few poems; doesn't mean that I'm a poet.
A poet is someone who sees things that others don't see;
who feels things that others don't feel.
They see love in the darkness, and darkness in love.
They feel moonlight in the daytime, and sunlight in the night.
Their soul emits emotions that just can't be contained,
so they spill out of the recesses of their very being onto the pages in front of them,
for all to see,
and few to understand.
A poet is a lonely whisper in a deafening roar of humanity,
trying to make them hear;
trying to make them understand!
Speaking, not mouth to ear, but heart to heart to heart.
Longing. Singing! Crying. Smiling? Sighing.
That's what a poet is. That’s, what a poet is.
Now that I think about it…
maybe I am a poet after all.
Scheme | X A X X X X X A B A X B X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110011010111010 0101111111011 11111011 111001001001 11100101001 1101010111101 111110100111010100100111 1111 01101 01010101000100110100 101111 1011101 101111111111 1010101010 110101110101 1111011 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
I don't feel worthy of being called a poet.
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