Analysis of On a Chair Outside a Church
On a chair outside a church
I wait in anticipation
the chill in the air touches my face.
Reminding me it's Fall and not quite Winter.
I wait to see the first morning light land
on the leaves of orange across from me.
And as it does,
I ponder the reasons for change, and the seasons of life,
or rather the season of change and the reason for life.
I contemplate the complexities of this universe
and the simplicities of a song sang by a sparrow.
On a chair outside a church
As I wait in anticipation
for a few hundred people about to walk through those doors.
I've done all I needed to do.
I've turned on the lights and I've heated the rooms.
I now rest with the work complete.
Everything is ready and no one is here as I wait
On a chair outside a church.
I think of those about to arrive,
how they'll see me and smile
yet not know that I was here before the sunlight.
A thankless job for a humble man,
I now realize and know what Hayden meant by
loves austere and lonely office as I sit
On a chair outside a church.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 1100010 010011011 01011101110 1111011011 1011100111 0111 11001011001011 11001011001011 110001001110 00110111010 1011101 11100010 10110100111111 11111011 11101011001 11110101 1011001111111 1011101 111101101 111101 11111110101 010110101 11100111011 10101010111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,021 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
This Poem was written on a cold Fall morning on a chair outside a church. It tells the thoughts of a facilities manager on a Sunday before church begins.
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Written on November 14, 2021
Submitted on December 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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