Analysis of Musings
Patricia Joyce Covel 1960 (Massachusetts)
A fly buzzed upon the windowpane
Gleefully mocking her incarceration
Repeatedly banging, searching for a way out
But finding none. Longing to soar through the sky
Free from chains and history
Determined frustration she watches it mock her life goals.
Bang, Bang, Bang
Exhaustion
But sleep does not come
Gnawing thoughts of days past race and torture
Regrets of life choices unraveling before her
Depression surrounds her and sinks her deeper in despair
As her feet pace the well-worn floors while her heart longs for her beloved
Only he has the power to pull her from the depths of wretchedness
But his love is fleeting and few as others pull him to them
She tries to adjust the wrinkled bedsheets of her life but there is no structure
Only one day flowing into another in endless waves of emotions
Battering her soul into submission like an angry storm against the cliffs
Bang bang bang
The fly buzzes on the window pane
Looking to escape its imprisonment when life is just a pane of glass away.
Scheme | abcdefGbhiijkfhilmGan |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101010 1001000010 010010101011 11011011101 1110100 01001011011011 111 010 11111 1011111010 0111100100010 01001001010001 1011011110111001 101101011010111 111110011101111 111010101101111110 1011100101001011010 1000101010111010101 111 011010101 10101101001111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 997 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 815 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 175 |
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