Analysis of Beauty Expressed
Seeking the gift of poets
I prayed to see beauty.
So I combed the wharf and the lane,
Searched the fields and the rivers,
I waded the teeming masses,
But in frustration and spite
I cried out to God that
a muse I could not discover.
For all I found was a man haggard and worn, his youth spent on the waves of the sea;
A woman of twenty, a body of sixty,
her slight frame riddled by drugs;
A couple old and stooped holding hands,
their love devoid of physical beauty.
Finally, I spied a harried young mother,
children in tow, her husband deployed a far.
An answer then came quiet and sweet,
“If only you’d learn the beauty of people, and nature, and things unknown to the human eye
For in extremity and struggle is the labor of living, and poetry is beauty expressed without eyes.”
Scheme | XA XXX XXB A AX XA BX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110 111110 11101001 1010010 11001010 1001001 111111 01111010 11111011001111101101 010110010110 0111011 010101101 1101110010 10011010110 10010100101 110111001 11011010110010010110101 1001000101010110010011001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 793 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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