Analysis of Shards
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Broken Bits of glass
Remnants of another's
piece of history
A broken bottle on a playground
Sadly cast aside
Be cautious
where you step
Meaningful dreams
live here
Share a moment
everyday
And a smile
celebrating life
Have a puddle party
Let's splash and play
While there's still daylight
becomes
another world
at night
As all too often
we lead our lives
compartmented in our private flowing pools
Our bodies push pulled along
Within the mainstream
Amidst echoes of life
Touched by this reality
together But at what cost
As a life nearby
is bled indiscriminately
As we continue on Living
despite the loss
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| Scheme | X XA XX XX XX XB XC A BD XXD X XX XX C AX XA XX C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 101010 11100 01010101 10101 110 111 1001 11 1010 101 001 1001 101010 1101 1111 01 0101 11 11110 11101 101010101 10101101 0101 011011 11110 0101111 10111 1101000 11010110 0101 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 721 |
| Words | 170 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 18 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 32 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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