Analysis of Island of New Hope



I walked along the sun-scorched steppe,
Exhausted and hopeless.
I walked to nowhere without a map.
Without a need for success.

I was just nonchalant, being free,
But needed some rest.
One lucky day I found a tree
With wide green branches.

I raised to heaven my grateful hands
And laid down in the shadow
On this little island of abundance
In the sea of sorrow.

I left it after two days and nights,
When I got stronger.
But this time I chose another path,
A path to somewhere.


Scheme XXXX AXAX XBXB XXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 11010111 010010 11110101 0101101 11101101 11011 11011101 11110 111101101 011001 1110101010 001110 111101101 11110 111110101 0111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 479
Words 103
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Written on April 09, 2022

Submitted by signals_from_the_moon on April 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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