Analysis of Silent Gaze



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
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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