Analysis of "Where"

William Assad 1949 (Penn)



Where is the place of silence in our minds?
Where space and time have no hold, and stories yet to be told?
Where beauty and ugly cannot be defined
Where the love of another is color blind?

Where can we go when no distance is measured?
Where the road brings us to our treasure?
Where speed does not get us home
Where left never alone?

Where is the life at the end of this journey?
Where coming and going blend into one?
Where the ones left behind, ask.
Where have we gone?


Scheme XXAA XXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11011100101 11011110101111 11001010101 10110101101 11111110110 1011111010 1111111 111001 11011011110 1100101011 1011011 1111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 460
Words 92
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 123
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

I wrote this one day in early spring while thinking about the journey of this life and the places no one can define.

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Written on May 12, 2021

Submitted by billassad67 on August 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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