Analysis of sometimes



i open the window
everything's standing still
no sound's walking on the tall wall
i return to my room
and start walking on the edge of my mind

i open the window
a cat's sitting on the tall wall
leisurely licking the hands of time
our eyes meet

i open the window
the tall wall is dwarfed
under the weight of a crow
sitting on it

i open the window
a pale face
pops up from behind the tall wall
to watch the wandering scents
of the oozing night

i open the window
the feeders are empty
the doves are cooing hungrily
so is my mind

i open the window
nobody's there
numerous footprints
are peeping through my eyes

i open the window
the tall wall is gone
i can touch everything
walking tall
in their essential gown


Scheme Axbxc Abxx Axax Axbxx Addc Axxx Axxbx
Poetic Form
Metre 110010 10101 11101011 101111 0110101111 110010 01101011 100100111 1011 110010 01111 1001101 1011 110010 011 11101011 1101001 10101 110010 010110 01110100 1111 110010 11 1001 110111 110010 01111 11110 101 010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 759
Words 170
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

what we can see through a window... and what a window can see through us...

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Written on January 23, 2008

Submitted by nooshin on April 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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nooshin azadi

a human being born in 1965... m.a. in english literature... words have always been my solace... more…

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