Analysis of Gray
Regina Elliott 1957 (Queens, NY)
The insomnia came in
cloud covered fragments
with its mother, depression,
as silent, sallow as she,
her hand clasped tightly
to her ~
as if two gray spirits
that sailed in on a
silver tide,
and moored.
| Scheme | ABCDDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (50%) Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 0010010 11010 1110010 110111 01110 10 111110 11010 101 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
This short poem is about depression.
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