Analysis of Strings

Erin Rogerson 1983 (Ontario)



She lays there awake
A million thoughts in her head
A place she doesn't go often
As she is usually misled

But tonight she is here
All jumbled inside
With no other place to be
And no place to hide

She sits in her mind
Picking through things
It takes way too much time
To unravel all her strings

She is scared of the darkness
That sometimes lurkes there
And she always goes in, not quite prepared.

To deal with these strings
Is something that requires patience and trust
Something she hasnt done but knows that she must

So tonight, she writes for it helps her sift through
The thoughts, the feelings, and all the knotted strings too.


Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC XXX CDD EE
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 11101 0101001 01110110 111100001 101111 11001 1110111 01111 11001 1011 111111 1010101 1111010 10111 011101101 11111 11010101001 1011111111 10111111011 010100101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 637
Words 125
Sentences 2
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

I wrote this poem because it was how I was feeling. All jumbled together and messed up like a ball of string after a kitten got a hold of it.

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Written on February 07, 2022

Submitted by erinrogerson on March 17, 2023

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