Analysis of Who Are You
Who are you?
To take your place
By judgment’s seat
And vigil keep
When love, himself
No record keeps.
Who are you?
To captive hold
In heart’s
Bitter dungeon cold
Those who brought,
Your inner pain
When love for you
Has turned the key
And at such a price
Bought, liberty
And have you never?
Placed fault or blame
Have you never?
Uttered words
To bring you shame
And have you never?
With cruel colours
Plucked from pain's palette
Painted characatures
Masters,
In framed bitterness
In heart’s hard, hall, hung
When love for you
Only sees
The character
You were created
To be
So who are you?
To take your place
By judgment’s seat
And vigil keep
When love for you
No record keeps
Scheme | ABCDxE AfxfxxAgxg Hihxi HbxbxxxAxhxg aBCDAE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1111 1101 0101 1101 1011 111 1101 01 10101 111 1101 1111 1101 01101 1100 01110 1111 1110 101 1111 01110 1101 11110 101 10 01100 01111 1111 101 0100 10010 11 1111 1111 1101 0101 1111 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 705 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 10, 5, 12, 6 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
This poem was written in November 2006 as a result of a vivid dream. In the dream I was holding an old key, I was led to an ancient door. I opened the door and entered what was a dungeon. The dungeon was full of people, captives, chained, all of whom were known to me. I woke up. Reflecting on the dream, I realised that the dungeon represented my heart, the 'captives' were held there by my own bitterness and unforgiveness. This poem is one of several 'meditations' that I wrote through which I found an inner freedom as I learnt to 'set my captives free'. Copyright: Naomi Fowke more »
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