Analysis of Kindred Love
Bradford BALL 1953 (Toledo)
Through bouts of toils and happiness
be neither dark nor light.
Foretold the tales of emptiness
intensified by night.
The realm well traveled will succumb
to a parralel of souls.
A gentleness of comrades
where others fear to go.
While demons dance in sheer delight
your sanity need win.
Accomplish much through subtleness
their strength comes from within.
In darkened corners of my soul
the battle rages fierce.
Encompassing the fortified
until the armor's pierced.
Then through the haze, a candlelight
it pushes back the dark.
Enforcing all the walls of will,
illuminates a spark.
The revelry of Kindred souls
Breach even darkened doors.
Turn back the void of emptiness
And allows the soul to soar.
Scheme | ABAB XCXX BDAD XXXX BEXE CXAX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11110100 110111 01011100 01011 01110101 10111 010011 110111 11010101 110011 010111 111101 01010111 010101 0100010 01011 1101010 110101 01010111 01001 01001101 110101 11011100 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 688 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Inspired by a very special lady in Washington state .
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Written on November 15, 2006
Submitted on July 29, 2021
Modified on March 28, 2023
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