Analysis of Silent Gaze
Sam Betts 1962 (Barnsley)
I see you through my vacant eyes, my mind still works you don’t
realise.
I’m just the old man on the bed with strange thoughts running around my head, and so very soon I will go but befored that my friend you need to know .
I’ve lived I’ve loved I’ve laughed I’ve cried, iI’ve stole I’ve gave I’ve failed I’ve tried.
Wild nights beneath
a watchful moon, that end so late or stop too soon . my table cracked along white lines, my mind in space so many times
I’ve lived I’ve loved I’ve laughed I’ve cried, I’ve stole I’ve gave I failed I tried.
I never thought that I’d be here looking at you over there, I was once there in your place , looking at the old man with his vacant face.
So live love laugh and cry , steal and give fail and try, and remember this for this is true , one day my friend this will be you.
Scheme | ABX A XB A B X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101111111 1 1101110111110011101101111111111111 1111111111111111 1101 0101111111111101011111011101 1111111111111111 110111111011101111101110101111101 11110110110100101111111111111 |
Characters | 863 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 68 |
Words per line (avg) | 19 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
A blind man on a hospital ward without family and soon to cross the veil True from my experience 30 years ago.
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Written on January 01, 2022
Submitted by Sambetts39 on March 10, 2023
Modified on April 14, 2023
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