Analysis of Knowing
How do you say a last goodbye
When the setting sun is nigh?
You remember all the years
When laughter came in tears.
Every day would bring a morning
As the rising sun was dawning.
Days would never have an end;
The night another day would send.
When the night would last too long,
The birds no longer sang that song
That brought the morning sun to life
And shut the darkness out with light.
Now the darkness cloaked the light;
sorrow dressed the sun at night.
No longer would a new morn be
Since light was just a memory.
Hoping that the night would say,
"Send the light just one more day",
You would set off in the night
To catch the first ray of the light.
You would bring a rose along
To recall the sparrow's song;
Spices at the journey's end
For your mind and soul to mend.
Your heart is from your body torn
When you see the tomb at dawn.
It is empty like the night
But above a shining light.
Your tears increase the more
As a man steps to the fore.
The sun your eyes have dimmed
For you see the hedges trimmed.
"Tender of the garden here,
Don't confirm my darkest fear.
Have you taken him away?
Tell me what you have to say?"
Scheme | AAXX BBCC DDXE EEFF GGEEDDCC XXEE HHII XXGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 1010111 1010101 110101 100111010 10101110 1110111 01010111 1011111 01110111 11010111 01010111 1010101 1010111 11010111 11110100 1010111 1011111 1111001 11011101 1110101 11011 101011 1110111 11111101 1110111 1110101 1010101 110101 1011101 011111 1110101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,130 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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