Analysis of Pendulum
After a midsummer storm I awake
gin-fogged, barely seeing.
I hear an orchestra of banging doors
my father’s footsteps light against the wooden floor.
Here, lucid, there is relief in forgetting
having crossed an ocean,
hands differently placed on a clock,
my exact place on earth.
Realization moves at a glacial slowness
and then, whiplash--
a strike, like a javelin through the heart
that eases into a dull, numbing pain.
Reality, the distance, bitter resolutions
that led me here.
On the end of that trajectory, a body aches
from springs on a worn-out mattress.
In youth, there is grappling with the wanting and not wanting
the run, the noise, the liberation,
while also burdened by the heavy
inexorable load of wanting to stay.
Scheme | XA XX AB XX CX XX XX XC AB XX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1001101101 111010 1111001101 11011010101 11011010010 101110 11001101 101111 10101101010 011 0110100101 1100101101 1001010010 1111 1011101000101 11101110 01111010100110 01010010 110101010 1000111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
This poem is about one's conflicting feelings about leaving their small town to see what the world has to offer.
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