Analysis of The lady in the tree
There was an old lady who sat at the tree.
The tree in the ally, the ally that grieved.
A rope dangled down as she prayed her goodbye.
I sat there and watched her fly up to the sky.
Many years later I walk to that tree.
A new rope each time, I counted, 1, 2, and 3.
The many lives lost I look back at her rope.
Soon to be mine I gave up all hope.
| Scheme | AXBB AXCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111011101 01001001011 0110111101 11101011101 1011011111 011111100 01011111101 111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 349 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
About this poem
When I wrote this poem I was going through a pretty rough moment in my life, losing a family member to suicide. I had to get it out on paper.
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