Analysis of The cloak ticks but i am standing still
Iro Manolakoglou 2001 (Kavala)
The cloak ticks but i am standing still
The truth hides and the lies fly
The fish drowned
And the fire burned
The water sees all
And the air can hurt you more.
I see shadow walk by
While i am standing in the line
Afraid had i been
I see the crystal sky
Memories forgotten
For kings who have fallen
Parody indeed
In this life in between
Come with me dear,
Save your precious tears
Fly in the sky
Where birds come to die
Hunters are no more
For the were killed all
It's quiet in the peace
In the mind of a new breed
Find one and seize one
But peace will never be
As the cloak ticks
But time remains still.
Suddenly i am the cloak
But i can not move forth.
Why cheat life with death
Why cheat water with blood
Why see the brightness of the sun
Why kiss a broken heart
Why do eyes look like thousand stars
How can you confuse the light with the dark
How you get lost in your home
Maybe it's the way you think
Maybe it's the way we dream
Perhaps we lose time
Because we won life
Catch a breath and let it swell
In your lungs you feel the trust
What if oxygen does not help anymore
And it's carbon the one you want.
How come contradictions
Are the life's most common decisions
Are humans blind to the madness
Or are they just let it happen
In contradictions we make decisions
That built or destroy superstition
Who to maintain your mind
When logic has been left behind
Broad forward one more time
Before the sky closes it's eyes
Before the star lose their shine
Before the sun divide the sky
Before the moon takes the night
And stays forever amplified.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111101 0110011 011 00101 01011 0011111 11111 11110001 01111 110101 100010 111110 10001 011001 1111 11101 1001 11111 10111 10011 110001 0011011 11011 111101 1011 11011 1001101 111111 11111 111011 11010101 110101 11111101 1110101101 1111011 1010111 1010111 01111 01111 1010111 0111101 1110011101 01100111 11010 101110010 11011010 11111110 001011010 11101010 110111 11011101 110111 01011011 0101111 01010101 0101101 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,573 |
Words | 334 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 28, 29 |
Lines Amount | 57 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 616 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 152 |
About this poem
This poem is about the contradictions life can present to humans and how differently we respond through the passage of time.
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Written on October 14, 2022
Submitted by iromanolakoglou on October 14, 2022
Modified on March 24, 2023
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