Analysis of bridge of promise
Jeffrey Lynn Naylor 1954 (Orlando)
the fortune of love is a journey
that begins by crossing the bridge of promise.
we walk it steadily looking for open hearts
and open minds that draw us to them without
reason or purpose of design, but merely
meld toward each other because of the undefined
destiny that is the engine of our desires. sometimes
we disappear into the crowds to enjoy the seclusion
of our own personal romance, only to realize that
our journey is yet incomplete. we are not finished
until our hearts are like the earth’s soggy soil;
love rich for the seeds of unity that will make
our passage into the surreality of love a triumph
of persistence and of how quickly we stepped in
that very first moment when we moved across the
bridge of promise seeking love, yet finding life!
Scheme | ABCDAEFGHIJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111010 10111001110 111100101101 01011111101 10110101110 101110011001 1001101011001001 10101011010010 110110001101101 10101100111110 011011101101 111011100111 1010010111010 101001110110 110110111010 11101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 742 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 610 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 137 |
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