Analysis of Habit
Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)
Is the greater fear, new possibility,
or that the same we will remain.
Entrenched in familiarity,
a pawn in our own game.
We hold so fast,
to this sinking ship.
Clamped tightly to its mast,
scanning for the future,
while stuck firmly in the past.
Anchored to the known,
by fear and delusion
its more potent soft feathered friend,
These stories that we sell ourselves.
Till the telling end..
Scheme | AXAX BXBXB XXCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110100 11011101 0100100 0101011 1111 11101 110111 101010 1110001 10101 110010 11101101 110111001 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 396 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
about habit and conditioning
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Written on March 26, 2024
Submitted by robertl.92681 on March 26, 2024
Modified by robertl.92681 on March 26, 2024
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