Analysis of The Peace of Stillness
The Peace of Stillness
In the peace of stillness
With arms to hold her tight
Doesn’t matter if he means it
See it’s only for tonight
She puts on the dress and make up
Brushes her long hair
Hoping that for a moment
She’ll get lost inside his stare
The passion is sweet sorrow
Sweet because it’s there
The sorrow comes when she’s alone again
Knowing no one truly cares
Her skin is chafed and muscles sore
It’s a pain she holds so dearly
But her hearts still in a million pieces
This didn’t fix it nearly
She locks the pain inside herself
Rarely lets it show
When it comes out of the darkness
She is filled with yearn and woe
Not for any man she feels it
It’s for herself you see
The wide eyed girl with hopes and dreams
She’ll never again be
Men love her for her body
Yet seldom ever see
Inside the peace of stillness
Where that girl, she’s still set free
They only see her flesh
Not the person that’s inside
The sweet and loving funny girl
The one that’s full of pride
She takes what she is offered
Those tiny scraps of time
And she gives him everything he needs
While she dies more inside
The woman’s been so broken
With no clue how to rise
She bides her time and prays one day
To see love in someone’s eyes
Although it’s quite unlikely
For this woman to be loved
It’s all she really wants in life
Just one time before she dies
So In the peace of stillness
She remembers and she cries
And grieves the girl that could’ve been
Were she loved from someone’s eyes
Scheme | A ABCB XDXD EDXX XFXF XEAE CFXF FFAF XGXG XXXG XHXH FXXH AHXH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110 001110 111101 1101111 1110101 11101011 10011 1011010 1110111 0101110 10111 0101110101 1011101 01110101 10111110 1011001010 111110 11010101 10111 11111010 1111101 11101111 110111 01111101 110011 1101010 110101 0101110 1111111 110101 1010101 01010101 011111 1111110 110111 01111011 111101 011110 111111 11010111 111011 111010 1110111 11110101 1110111 1001110 1010011 0101111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,527 |
Words | 304 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
I sat one day and these words spilled out in under 3 minutes. It is the first poem I’ve written in 20 years, and I’m still unable to read it without being brought to tears by what I felt that day.
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Written on October 03, 2021
Submitted by adcombs32 on August 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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