Analysis of The Homo Sapien Vastness
None understand
The Ache of Centuries
They're numerous as the sand
Of the seas immensity
The luster of love
Loses the color when broken
The affront of-
All things once spoken
The sheen of abundance
Turns grotesquely grey
This hard redundance
Makes friends shy away
The limp of an arm
The blue of a hip
A dead child can't charm
A new babe out the hip
A sad woman's soul
The poison in tears
The heave, ebb, then roll
Increasing with years
Youths' regal state
First waste the face
In old age you hate
The fading of grace
Men who were steel
Genuflect towards the land
Making them feel
Like a nameless brand
A forest once sown
Grows to the point
Until time's hewn
What water can't anoint
War is for kings
But death has the keys
The great cygnet ring
Brings countries to their knees
Inside of pain
We all will reside
For one it's the same
And no one can hide.
Scheme | ABAA CDCD XEBE FGFG HIHI JKJK LALA XMXM XBXB XNXN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 011100 1100101 1011 01011 10010110 0011 11110 011010 10101 111 11101 01111 01101 01111 011101 01101 01001 01111 01011 1101 1101 01111 01011 1101 10101 1011 10101 01011 1101 0111 110101 1111 11101 0111 110111 0111 11101 11101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 853 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on October 01, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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