Analysis of Walking

Jenny Ayers 1978 (Wisconsin)



I am walking down an old dirt road walled with trees towards my future.  I see nothing ahead of me. I begin to wonder if there is something wrong as something tells me this is my future. I am scared of what this could possibly mean, so I turn around to go back to my past, but the road is gone.  I look around at where I am; the soft green grass, the bright blue sky, there is no sun, but is is light.  It's like the land of doves.  As I walk around, no idea of where I'm going, I begin to understand that there is nothing for me and no one to care for me.  I fall to the ground and weep.  I realize that there is no reason to do this, for there is no one can hear or help me here in my world of silence.  So, I stand and walk towards the horizon and into my future of utter silence.


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Characters 783
Words 165
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 590
Words per line (avg) 172
Letters per stanza (avg) 590
Words per stanza (avg) 172

About this poem

I wrote this prose at the end of 6th grade, on June 20, 1991 and it describes how I felt at that time. I had just moved cross-country with my immediate family. I went into the 6th grade at an elementary school, whereas all my friends back in Wisconsin got to go into the junior high.

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Written on June 20, 1991

Submitted by bgoddess1226 on August 07, 2023

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Jenny Ayers

Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and loving it till I had to move. To hell. Finished my schooling there, and went to college at NAU, after my horrific car accident that nearly destroyed me 2 months post high school graduation. more…

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