Analysis of Regret

Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)



Regret and condemnation,
 circulate in the mind,
 propagating themselves,
 making more of their kind.
Images replicate,
 demanding ever more attention,
 starving life of love,
 and any new potential,

A small act of kindness
can cast all this flimsy to the wind.
dispelling gloom,
 allowing room for beauty to attend,
and see the glory in our strivings.
 for the shining light of dignity,
the hope inside humanity,
the naked courage of the good.


Scheme ABXBXAXX XBXXXCCX
Poetic Form
Metre 010010 10001 10001 101111 10010 010101010 10111 0101010 011110 111110101 0101 0101110101 0101001010 101011100 01010100 01010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 446
Words 88
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Written on April 28, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on April 28, 2024

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