Analysis of Poems
Poems
By Chris Commodore © 2008
Nature’s history they rehearse,
In meter feet and rhyme;
The timeline of the universe,
In bouncy metric time.
Divulging doubts and regrets,
The tricks and treats of time;
Unearthing hidden secrets,
The hero’s love or crime.
Life’s pacts in nomenclature,
All sweat that cultures bind;
Hypotheses we nurture,
Logged through a poet’s mind.
Man’s history as he treks along,
The records of his folklore;
His journals to all time belong,
Forevermore they store.
A hellish battle lost or won,
On battlefields or in one’s heart,
Wild imagery, right now or gone,
Hard facts in true poetic art.
More versatile than any prose,
In method or in tongue.
Much sweeter than the newest rose,
Good poems short or long.
Scheme | XA BCBC XCXC DEDE FAFA XGXG HXHF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 1110 10100101 010101 0101010 010101 0101001 010111 0101010 010111 110100 111101 010110 110101 110011101 001111 11011101 111 01010111 1101011 11001111 11010101 11001101 010101 11010101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 753 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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A short but limited meditation on poems and their lingering purpose and cultural intricacies.
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