Analysis of Fleeting
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Phantom promise,
Etched in air,
A whispered declaration,
Barely heard,
Quickly discarded.
Like smoke dissolving
Into nothing,
I chased the trace,
Ephemeral,
Elusive.
A mirage of hope,
Feathers scattered
By the wind,
Slipping through
My fingertips.
I clung to the echo,
Trying to decipher
Its meaning,
But the words
Melted away.
Promised futures crumbled,
Fading
Into distant memories,
Wrapped
In the cloak of time.
Resigned
To the phantom's realm,
I dance in its ethereal shadow,
A wistful echo
Of that forgotten vow.
No foundation
To stand upon,
Except the haunting echoes,
Of a promise
Never fulfilled.
Yet still,
I find comfort,
In the ghost
Of what could have been,
Though it slips away,
A phantom.
Even empty promises,
Carry fragments
Of possibility,
And in those remnants,
I find beauty.
Scheme | AXBCX DDXXX XCEXX FXDXG XDXXX EXFFX BXXAX XXXXGX XHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 101 010010 101 10010 11010 0110 1101 0100 010 00111 1010 101 101 110 111010 101010 110 101 1001 101010 10 0110100 1 00111 01 1011 110101001 01010 110101 1010 1101 0101010 1010 1001 11 1110 001 11111 11101 010 1010100 1010 10100 00110 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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