Analysis of Felt
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
To give when you feel another's pain
To remember hunger, stress or shame
To witness a guilt and feel the same
To receive loving gaze without blame
To say how you feel without a thought
To ask from a hand that nothing brought
To be in a world of shudders taught
To lift up your hands to the Lord God
To withstand all the stones that they pelt
To answer I have known how you felt
| Scheme | ABBBCCCDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 111110101 101010111 110010101 101101011 111110101 111011101 110011101 111111011 101101111 110111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 300 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Written on March 09, 2023
Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 09, 2023
Modified on March 13, 2023
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