Analysis of Gifted hand
What does 'we' mean in this shroud?
The slow painting of the clouds
Ushered away by the chasing hounds?
A taste of light beginning the hour
arousing the meek back into their power?
The hustle through each traffic light found?
Sometimes tortured feet lay pressure down
a little too hard for the greater track.
Yet releasing the fear
Of not being able to look back.
Destination in reach for everyone.
Just a handshake away from all the fun.
Though illness creeps upon our awareness of
the pessimists gifted hand of love.
And contradictions even now
humiliate hypocritical vows.
Sometimes silence allows us to still follow
the hope of finding the one who'll know
the difference between a sympathetic ear,
and the empathy of an extreme tear.
And so it is that we feel fear
of knowing ones that we hold dear.
For inside a whisper of self care
says of such truths - perhaps beware.
For what? To think for our own selves?
To recognise where our faulter delves.
But then how can we ever agree
that I can't love you
and you can't love me?
Such is friendship's complexity,
every time you use the word 'we'.
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Metre | 1111011 0110101 100110101 0111010010 01001101110 010111011 011011101 0101110101 101001 111010111 01001110 101011101 110101100101 010010111 0010101 01001001 01100111110 011100111 01000100101 0010011011 01111111 11011111 101010111 11110101 111111011 1111011 111111001 11111 01111 1110100 100111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,096 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 31 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 871 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 197 |
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Written on March 15, 2023
Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 15, 2023
Modified on March 23, 2023
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