Analysis of Impossible pursuit
Okwir Elvis Louis 2003 (Lira)
A dreary winter's day
Snow piercing my skin like pieces of broken glass yet not actually felt from within
Mind on a standstill from all the cold
Yet no cold I do feel
Loud wails from my aching head like thunder was being made from within
Yet a whimper is all that is being heard
In my kingdom of isolation
An impossible dream my willing but sick body and soul pursue
Yet something holds me down
The very own snow that I am a source of lonely and lost define my every attribute
Lying in snow I be
Eyes unwilling to look because what lies in sight holds no hope
I hear a rustle and turn to its direction
Hoping to see a saviour's face
In my turning I pray that this glimpse bring me salvation
But alas, my world darkens, my eyelids fail to give my eyes sight of what I hoped was a saviour and there I was on the ice cold snow.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 110111101101111001101 11011101 111111 11111011101101101 10101111101 01101010 10100111011100101 110111 01011111011100101110010 100111 101011011101111 110100111010 1011011 01101111111010 101111111111111111101011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 829 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Snow Queen held down by her own magic
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