Analysis of In me.



This barrel rolls but the mount is great.
As the crow calls I think about my fate.
Orange flowers greet me at the gate
but my house is silent without an inmate.
Church bells slowly ring their tears and
I'm back here after all these years.
I plant a tree that will surely grow
higher than my dreams will ever go.
Songs of holy love stir and move the throut, and the rain surrounds me like a mote, as I enter the old house I used to know.
The wind ushers in through familiar cracks
as I look for shadows long gone, I unpack.
Then hammer new wood on the slamming gate out back.
Weeds of roses have made a fortress for me, and I prop them up against the sycamore tree.
The sun peeps through the echoed leaves
as the poet that lived here gloats on the breeze.
I light fresh flames in the old barbeque and stay there turning till I'm warmed right through.
The shadows fall as I wait for the cat but I don't expect he's still around though.
I guess its just me then and what's in me.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110110111 1011110111 101011101 1111100111 11101110 11110111 110111101 101111101 111011010100101110111100111111 0110010101 1111111101 110111010111 1110110101101111010101 01110101 10101111101 1111001100111011111 0111111011110111011 1111110101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 976
Words 205
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 762
Words per stanza (avg) 193
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Written on October 10, 2022

Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on October 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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