Analysis of Why I Write

Jeffrey Rollins 1947 (Washington DCn)



Why do I write?
Who listens to me?
Who is my audience
Squinting to see?
In the dark abyss they sit.
Desperate, helpless, hopeless
Yearning for relief
For just a little bit
Destroyed by life's circumstance,
Fate's ceaseless woe.
They hungrily seek a flicker,
A direction in which to go.
A beam in the pure pitch
Of endless night.
Something.
Some word or phrase
Or liberating insight.
They crave salvation from their deepest malaise,
A measure of redemption from long tedious days.
Knowledge Truth
So as not to upbraid,
"It gives us strangely little aid."
So, they stumble upon me.
Me and my life.
Me, a fellow sojourner
Like then, forlorn,
But mercifully afforded refuge
From life's powerful storms.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111 11011 111100 1011 0010111 101010 10101 110101 011110 1101 11001010 00100111 010011 1101 10 1111 11001 11010111001 0101010111001 101 11111 11110101 1110011 1011 1010100 1101 1100001010 111001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 699
Words 138
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 551
Words per stanza (avg) 119

About this poem

In order to remain motivated, it occurred to me what impetus urges me to write.

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Written on October 19, 2022

Submitted by jfstandards47 on October 31, 2022

Modified on April 07, 2023

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Jeffrey Rollins

Theatre Arts Degree, University of Maryland. 50 year broadcaster Westwood One Radio. 20 year poet. 200 poems more…

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