Analysis of I Hear It
With a sweet, silver sound,
the wind calls all around,
a ghost of a person, gone and lost,
laughing at those who are naïve to cost.
The breeze sends hearts aflutter
with its breath it will mutter,
“come to me, follow me,
come to where you want to be.”
The honeyed smell of humid air
come to those who stop and stare,
when the weak equal the strong,
the wind whispers, “you were wrong.”
Who can hear it, the gentle voice?
Would we if we had the choice?
It swirls around us and no one hears
the quiet sound of the world’s tears.
Scheme | AAXX BBCC DDEE FFXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 101101 011101 011010101 1011111111 0111010 1111110 111101 1111111 0111101 1111101 1011001 0110101 11110101 1111101 110110111 01011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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