Analysis of Bruce
Gary Grant 1948 (Virginia)
When stillness settles with cold wings
upon a once so fountained life
and lastly one lone angel sings
a saddened song of blackened night.
Is this that brings me here to cry,
beneath the now stilled words of dark
is this that makes me ask God why
a voyage one so loved must start.
I cannot find one moments peace,
is better this they say to me,
that at these hours' tears released,
will tomorrow set my sorrows free?
Scheme | ABACDEDFGHIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 0101111 01011101 01011101 11111111 01011111 11111111 01011111 11011101 11011111 11110101 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 416 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 329 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
About this poem
The loss of my twelve-year-old brother
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Written on June 20, 2022
Submitted by Learningto on November 15, 2022
Modified on March 12, 2023
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