Analysis of Voices and Visions”
“Voices and Visions”
Noisy thoughts bombard me
in night’s silence
Causing eery visions to appear
Monsters weep hot tears
upon my eyelids
Zeeping echoes magnify my fears
I lie awake and wonder,
will sleep find me,
Or am I too consumed
by gremlins of the night?
If only I could leave
the noise behind me-
I would dream in peace
till morning’s light
I press my palms against my ears
to block the voices
My eyes clenched tight
to make the visions disappear
Then I realize
it’s all about my choices-
I can live with passion,
or be fossilized by fear
So I choose to let the voices
and the visions
Scatter seed inside my mind
and let them sow…
Unafraid now,
I give them their provisions
Made impotent, they acquiesce
…and go
| Scheme | A BXCXXD XBXEXBXE DFECXFXC FAXGGAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 101011 0110 10110101 10111 0111 1101011 1101010 1111 111101 110101 110111 01011 11101 1101 11110111 11010 1111 1101001 1110 1101110 111110 111011 11111010 0010 1010111 0111 011 1111010 1100101 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 748 |
| Words | 151 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 8, 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Obsessive thoughts can be challenging in our waking hours, and to a good night’s sleep as well. The best way to release ourselves from their hold, is to disarm them by ‘letting them be’, because fighting them only fuels their fire. This task is made more difficult by the horrific suffering we are all witnessing, too many experiencing on this earth. I pray, I hope, I dream, I imagine…a kinder, more loving world for our children and grandchildren.
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