Analysis of Echoes of Loss and Hope



In the stillness of the night, I lie awake
Reflecting on the connections I've made
Some fleeting, some lasting, all leaving a mark
A tangled web of love, pain, and dark

Questions swirl in my mind, reaching up to the sky
God, do you see me? Can you hear my cry?
Why do we love, only to lose?
Why do we trust, only to be bruised?

An elegy for the innocence lost
In a world so cruel, so cold, so crossed
For the hearts broken, the dreams shattered
For the times we thought nothing else mattered

So I stand here, alone in the dark
Haunted by memories, leaving their mark
To love and to lose, to question and wonder
In this life, a never-ending plunder

But still, I hold on to hope in my heart
That the pain and the loss will someday depart
And that in the end, when all is said and done
I will find peace, and finally run.


Scheme XXAA BBXX CCDD AAEE FFGG
Poetic Form Quatrain  (60%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 00101011101 0101001011 11011011001 010111101 101011101101 1111111111 11111011 111110111 1100101001 0011101111 101100110 1011110110 111101001 1011001011 11011110010 0110101010 1111111011 1010011101 01001111101 111101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 822
Words 169
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on February 11, 2024

Submitted by 29gagesalinas on February 14, 2024

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