Analysis of Ode To Loneliness

Sherry Caayupan 1980 (Davao city)



Adrift in the sunken pearls,
Lurks my wounded heart;
A penny for the wishing well,
The love will never depart;

Tears of saddening has gone a train,
I moped a winding river;
The sun sets on my windowpane,
My neglected heart shivers;

When will this oblivion end?
I've already unfound you;
What's left is none to mend,
Your meek absence sounds aloud through;

Take my scarred heart and undo the pieces,
I am drenched, left broken;
My heart has become empty spaces,
My lips alone and shaken.


Scheme XAXA BXBX CDCD EFEF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 0100101 11101 01010101 0111001 111001101 1101010 0111110 1010110 11101001 101011 111111 11101011 1111001010 111110 111011010 1101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 471
Words 87
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

This poem is about sadness that left too long.

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Written on July 27, 2021

Submitted by Pink_Crystal on July 26, 2021

Modified on April 24, 2023

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Sherry Caayupan

Sherry Caayupan is a poet from the Philippines. more…

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