Analysis of Lady at the Well
Lady at the well
On a lonely stretch of wooded road
I paused to rest awhile
when glancing up my eyes beheld
a Lady with a gentle smile.
Her presence wasn't natural
her spiritual than real
not something that one can explain
--a sensation ....that one feels.
Beside a roadside well she stood
and offered me a drink
it wasn't water- in the sense --we know
but knowledge to make me think.
So radiant ---so lovely
so beautiful....so sleek
I heard her words of wisdom
yet, she did not speak.
What she divulged to me
--never shall---I tell
I made a certain promise
---to the lady ---at the well---
One day--you too, may wander
down that lonely wooded road
and then---you will know the truth
of the tale that I have told.
And---if you see the Lady
beside the roadside well
listen to the wisdom
---that she has --to tell.
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 101011101 111101 1101111 01010101 01010100 0100011 11011101 0010111 0101111 010101 1101000111 1101111 1100110 111 1101110 11111 110111 10111 1101010 1010101 1111110 1110101 0111101 1011111 0111010 01011 101010 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 789 |
| Words | 151 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 29 |
| Lines Amount | 29 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 610 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 151 |
About this poem
No idea where this one came from ;my pen just wrote it out at one sitting. My comment who? where did this come from ? No idea. Sometimes I see in my mind just a idea or hear or see something and I grab pen and paper and like many of my poems it is imaginative out of nowhere. No idea where they all come from. My Imagination knows no bounds. I just see it in my head and out comes a poem --no idea where they come from. Can't stop writing either stories or poems.
Written on May 09, 1993
Submitted by norma.suddard on August 23, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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