Analysis of Welcome to the nether void



Once outspoken
always to tell the truth,
Beyond one's own perspective.
Now I will lay silent for a time and watch as things unfold.
I will surface once again when the time is right.
For my love is guarded and I will protect that at all costs.
I will only bear witness to all the fakes and see their unraveling.
I will wear my palm against my lips till butterflies swarm among us again.
I have wasted enough energy. I will sit back and sleep once again until the storm passes.
When I begin to speak again hopefully all those that are deaf and naive will listen and hear me.
For I am not death nor am I life, I am the barrier between both.
Dropping the veil between light and dark, what will you see when you close your eyes and silence befalls you. So, tell me who or what do you see.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1110 11101 0111010 111110101011101 111010110111 111110011011111 111011011010110100 111110111110101101 111001100111101101010110 110111011001111101110011 111111111110100011 100101101111111111010011111111111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 783
Words 164
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 51
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 613
Words per stanza (avg) 154

About this poem

This poem is about something I experienced and how my mind processed it.

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Written on May 02, 2023

Submitted by sarahh.32577 on May 18, 2023

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Sarah Holt

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