Analysis of Farewell



As a thousand moons fall into the grass
I think of the farewell I will leave, alas
Will it be silent as a forgotten root
That rotted deep in the soil so mute
Would an old soul still remember my name
The humour of a poem I left in the stream
I wonder if my soul would enter the room
To shake the lights goodbye in the gloom
Or would a hundred readers remember my words and lament the passing of this Godly sword.
Then might the sky part then just for me
To enter the gates of eternity
As the angels voices purr in the breaze
And the whisp of light pull hard at me
The world dissapear beneath my feet
As I wonder what I did to find this cheat
The one thing that convinced the heavens
That I
was now pure and forgiven enough to say goodbye.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010110101 1110111101 11110100101 110100111 1111101011 01101011001 11011111001 11011001 11010100101100101011101 110111111 1100110100 1010101001 001111111 0110111 11101111111 011101010 11 111001001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 738
Words 152
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 585
Words per stanza (avg) 150
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Written on February 01, 2023

Submitted by heathert.34240 on February 01, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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