Analysis of A Barren Place



There is no rain on the moon,
flowing rivers or blue seas.
A drab and colorless globe,
with not so much as a breeze.

There is no air there to breath,
no green trees or fields of snow.
A desolate desert, with
no chance life will ever show.

There is no diversity,
just dust wherever you look.
A boring, bleak, barren place,
that time long ago forsook.

And yet it looks beautiful,
hung in an ebony sky.
And when it melds with our hearts,
there's no need to question why.


Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1111101 1010111 0101001 1111101 1111111 1111111 0100101 1111101 1110100 1101011 0101101 1110101 0111100 1011001 01111101 1111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 452
Words 90
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on October 09, 2013

Modified on March 28, 2023

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Emile Pinet

I was born in a small town, (Bathurst) New Brunswick, Canada,. The third eldest of thirteen children, ten girls and three boys. I’m the product of a semi-dysfunctional family, brought up by a controlling, physically abusive father, verses a loving mother. Many of my poems reflect the uniqueness and special circumstances of my upbringing. more…

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