Analysis of Ingrained



In the vastness and void
I am just a grain
A particle
The grand opera plays
Through comedy and tragedy
The world applauds
While the speck observes
While the sands of time wash over me
Ignoring me
For I am minute
Solitary
Brief
All my endevours
All my labours
Are fleeting and insignificant
While time resumes
And power waxes and wanes
The glorious bedazzle the stones
The audacious stand, for a short while
Then fade
Just like me
Yet
In my moment
I know
I feel
I love
No grain could have such passion as I
Could ask the questions I dare to ask
Could seek beyond the familiar
To embrace the unthinkable
And taste the unknown
This grain lays upon a hazardous shore
 Where tides and fauna hold sway
And the grain does not deride or decide
But acquiesces
With quiet assuredness
This grain does not struggle to be known
Does not beseech the approval of the universe
For in me are all the majesties and mysteries of life
And for me
This tapestry dances
And I rejoice
And I sing
For one brief second
A song
A melody of life
Such as can never be heard from the rock mass
Upon the waves of oblivion, of uncertainty
I flounder
One grain
On the vast shore of existence
Awaiting the builder's loving craft


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,194
Words 225
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 52
Lines Amount 52
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 966
Words per stanza (avg) 224

About this poem

Contemplating our place in it all

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Written on June 11, 2022

Submitted by Moomin on June 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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