Analysis of If walls could talk



If walls could talk

I stand amidst the ruins of wars,
A crumbling wall before me, old and worn.
I look up with a mix of wonder and fear,
As if the wall could speak and hear.

If walls could talk, what would it say?
Of battles fought and lives lost on that day.
Of hope and love, and broken dreams,
Of echoes from the past, or so it seems.

I imagine the memories it has kept,
Of pain and sorrow, I too have wept.
The wall tells stories of a time long past,
Of a world so different from my own at last.

As I gaze upon its weathered face,
I see in its cracks my own reflection's trace.
A symbol of resilience and determination,
That echoes through time without hesitation.

The wall may fall, but its story remains,
Etched in the hearts of those who sustain.
For if walls could talk, they would remind,
That in every tragedy, hope can be found


Scheme X XXXX AABB CCDD EEFF XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 110101011 01001011101 11110111001 11011101 11111111 1101011111 11010101 1101011111 10100100111 110101111 0111010111 101110011111 111011101 110111111 0101010000010 1101101010 0111111001 100111101 111111101 101001001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 857
Words 190
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

This is a poem about how war shatters sweet memories everything that holds memories. It's about how the walls get to witness man's atrocities and cannot convey them.

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Written on February 21, 2023

Submitted by isas.12972 on February 21, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Isa Suleiman Mustapha

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